Hooray for informal voters!

[Pseudo]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-electi ... 13wxt.html

Quotes of choice:

ALONG with the pictures of penises, the votes for Albus Dumbledore and Adolf Hitler, and various misguided attempts to spell the word ''Donkey'', ballot papers for last week's federal election were, in their thousands, blank.

''In the past there would certainly be your pile of informals - squiggles, drawings, penises, pictures of people in fishing boats saying 'I'd rather be fishin',' but this time there was blank after blank after blank.''

[dedja]

you realise that you're only supposed to mark one set of ballot papers don't you?

[Trader]

One voter had written on his or her paper: ''Mark Latham is a tool but he has a point''

[Gingernuts]

We were calling them Latham votes when we were counting them. "Another vote for Latham" as it went on the pile.

[fisho mcspaz]

I value my privilege to vote so I wouldn't ever hand in a blank ballot anyway - but particularly not after it was endorsed by Mark Latham. I quite liked him when he was the leader of the ALP but now I'd have to say he's an absolute c***!

[Gozu]

I agree I kind of think it's poor form to intentionally throw away your vote and I too liked Latham in his time as Labor leader but he's certainly gone off the rails since. I feel him for a little even after those stunts as he said he needed the $10K-$15K he got from Channel Nein to pay off some debts so he must be in a bit of financial strife to stoop as low as he did.

[Dirko]

I agree I kind of think it's poor form to intentionally throw away your vote

Why ? If none of the people on the ballots are worth voting for, why should we vote for them.

I'm not voting for someone just for the sake of not having an informal.

[Gozu]

I agree I kind of think it's poor form to intentionally throw away your vote

Why ? If none of the people on the ballots are worth voting for, why should we vote for them.

I'm not voting for someone just for the sake of not having an informal.

Because in a lot of other places people would love to have the opportunity to vote in a democratic election but at the same time I realise it's only compulsory to get your name ticked off the list.

[bulldogproud2]

I agree I kind of think it's poor form to intentionally throw away your vote

Why ? If none of the people on the ballots are worth voting for, why should we vote for them.

I'm not voting for someone just for the sake of not having an informal.

The only problem in this is surely you must dislike at least one politician slightly less than another? If so, by voting informally, you are allowing the one you dislike more strongly an opportunity to get elected.
Yes, there may be no politician we truly like in our electorate but surely there is one we dislike a little less?
Cheers

[Dirko]

Yes, there may be no politician we truly like in our electorate but surely there is one we dislike a little less?
Cheers

Nope. They're all arseholes

[Dirko]

Because in a lot of other places people would love to have the opportunity to vote in a democratic election but at the same time I realise it's only compulsory to get your name ticked off the list.

I always thought it was democratic to be compulsory....