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Originally Posted by Xaccers
And it's in the majority winner's interest to keep them out of the polling stations lest they vote for the other bloke.
I have often wondered if Labour's plan has been to increase voter apathy so that it comes down to which party has the largest number of die hard supporters that would vote for a banana if you painted it red.
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Another tempting idea, except that the conventional wisdom is that it tends to be Labour voters who are more prone to apathy.
Low turnout is a symptom of voters becoming disengaged with the whole political process. They think they can't change anything, due to a lack of real choice, so therefore why bother. I just don't see how adding a 'none of the above' to the ballot paper is going to change that.
Radical electoral reform, not tinkering around the fringes, is the only way we're likely to get any reversal of that apathy.
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