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• Forget not 'throwing away', vote your conscience (Score:1)

  by jordan (120)

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    Yes, I will go to the election
    

    Yes, I will vote for one of the 6 parties that have a chance to go to parliament. Everything else would just mean throwing ones vote away.
    

    Still this whole business looks a bit useless to me ... political change might make some things different - but not necessarily better
    

  Vote for one of the 6 parties if that's who you would vote for anyway, but don't vote to make sure your vote 'counts'. That's just ensures things don't change.

  Think about it. Do you really want ever
  • Re:Forget not 'throwing away', vote your conscienc (Score:1)

    by neophyte (2871)

    • A vote for a minority party may not make a difference in this election, but it could help to establish those parties and candidates for the future.

    While this is true and has brought us the green party to parliament, many of those parties have a very limited point of view. Some far right, one or two far left parties, a party for the elderly, a feminist party, a few environmentalist parties and so on. For the last election there even was a "car drivers party".
    
    And none of those cover all the things I th

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    • Re:Forget not 'throwing away', vote your conscienc (Score:1)

      by jordan (120)

      • While this is true and has brought us the green party to parliament, many of those parties have a very limited point of view. Some far right, one or two far left parties, a party for the elderly, a feminist party, a few environmentalist parties and so on. For the last election there even was a "car drivers party".

      Sure, don't vote for them if they are marginal interest groups or you don't agree with them. But, "throwing the vote away" is a bad reason not to vote for someone, IMO.