Before I'd see any step towards making voting mandetory there would first need to be a choice. A choice in candidate (rather than two options from the Very Corporate Party - Red Man or Blue Man - and one from the Slightly Less Corporate Party) and a choice to re-open because you support none of the above.
I've never lived in one of the 80 or so swing seats in the country. I've never lived in a seat where my vote is actually going to achieve anything other than waste my time because I've never lived in a seat with a party running that even comes close to representing my views.
I didn't vote. I stayed home and ignored it until about 19:00 the next day when I took a look on the BBC to see who had won. Again, as always when I look at the results of SMSP votes I was angered by the relative voter numbers compared to seats and then clicked to close the window.
For there to be mandatory voting there must be a choice. For there to be a choice there must actually be differing ideologies, not similiar ideologies which vary very slightly in hue.
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I've never lived in one of the 80 or so swing seats in the country. I've never lived in a seat where my vote is actually going to achieve anything other than waste my time because I've never lived in a seat with a party running that even comes close to representing my views.
I didn't vote. I stayed home and ignored it until about 19:00 the next day when I took a look on the BBC to see who had won. Again, as always when I look at the results of SMSP votes I was angered by the relative voter numbers compared to seats and then clicked to close the window.
For there to be mandatory voting there must be a choice. For there to be a choice there must actually be differing ideologies, not similiar ideologies which vary very slightly in hue.