Why dont people bother voting ?

Question

Should voting be COMPULSORY ?
Or there is no essence left in politicians ?

Answer 1

If you want to read about the voters I met on Nov 2nd 2004 in the rain, in lines up to 13 hours, risking health and job loss to vote, then you will read this. Every American should read this.

Just in the retelling of it, I found my eyes fill with tears.

It is first hand knowledge of what happened here in Ohio in 2004 by a voting rights advocate.

Many do not vote because they do not think their vote is counted. Currently over 75% of democrats, 50% of independents, and 25% of Republicans believe this.

Much of this is because of the massive vote fraud in 2000 and especially here in
Ohio..

WE TRIED HERE IN OHIO..there were record turnouts...We took to the streets in record numbers and registered 10 times more democrats than republicans..I spoke to people as I worked the polls who had never voted or never voted for 15 or 20 years who turned out.

As fast as we could register them Blackwell, our Katherine Harris secretary of state and co chair of the reelect Bush campaign, was ordering boards of elections (BOE) to throw away those registrations..for being on the wrong weight of paper, etc

. While our Franklin County (Columbus, Ohio) head of the BOE and former head of the franklin county republican party was colluding to take away many machines in all the democratic areas and add more to the republican areas and hiding over 75 machines in storage while machines were breaking and one precinct had zero machines working, we turned out in numbers they’d never seen before.

We waited in lines up to 13 hours to vote..in the freezing rain with winds so strong
they blew up umbrella inside out repeatedly and blew away my chair..

We handed out free food and trashbags and drinks and brought chairs..We encouraged
each other to wait in line despite angry bosses, crying kids, and saw elderly people
showing up with IVs from the hospital and older people on chemotherapy waiting in line
three hours and passing out and not getting to vote, People were passing out literally. Kids were crying from hunger and boredom.

We saw our young working the streets and participating and our old suffering in 5 hour lines...

We saw the poor and minorities, who had so much to lose voting and working hard and breaking all the stereotypes, we saw the patriot poor and minorities and college students have their votes suppressed and witnessed their votes not counting.

We saw crying people forced to leave the lines or lose their job or to pick up their kids who didn't get to vote after waiting three hours.

We saw people like myself, a disabled women on her feet 15 hours the night before , campaigning and waiting outside helping and handing out literature all day and night in the freezing rain and wind.

We saw the same people standing outside in freezing winter of 04 and early 05 in winds 50 MPH shivering and protesting our stolen election and the mass voter suppression and the machines that are so insecure.

These are Americans..these are patriots. These are the finest people you could ever meet. These are Americans patriots....who I am so proud of.

We saw people wait in line 2 hours, be told them were in the wrong line
or precinct go and wait 2 hours again or be purged from the roles after living in the
same house 50 years (Like Amos Caley), We saw people being sent to three precincts and still having to vote provisional. We saw thousands leave the lines without voting due to parenting and work commitments.

We saw people show up angry and crying at voter hearings after the election. I see every week people in Ohio still fighting to fix the vote..just two days ago Bev Harris of blackboxvoting came to our city and next week we are having a 3 day vote fraud conference. We continue to work hard, offering our time and talents to this issue. You here about and think about the apathetic, but do not forget those who do care..there are far more of them than it seems.

I saw the heart and soul of America that Nov 2nd 2004 be deprived and stolen of the right to vote..the right won by the blood of others. The fight our troops have died for. And it all makes me very angry.

How many of these people will never vote again because of what happened? And that’s just fine with those pulling the strings and stealing the elections...just makes it that much easier to steal the elections covertly.

See the film coming to HBO "hacking Democracy" Nov 2nd.

Go to freepress.org and read the election section here at ground zero

http://www.wakeupandsaveyourcountry.com/cheated/links.htm __just came out comic of

what happened here..I am in the book even..see the links


http://freepress.org/images/departments/4254PublicHearing.txt

http://freepress.org/images/departments/4263PublicHearing.txt

Read the actual transcript from the voters in Ohio and the poll workers as to what they experienced

that day..I was there too...fascinating and known to just a few..these people led to the 2nd ever

historic election challenge in US congress in 228 years on Jan. 6TH...REALLY

INTERESTING STUFF..I was in DC too on that historic day–on the winter freedom bus from Ohio to Washington. We stood with all races, religions, and with representatives of all states..

Research and call your congressmen and ask them to cosign and support the new amendment Dennis Kucinich just made HB 6200 to conduct all presential elections on hand counted at the precinct paper ballots..this is the only way top restore our democrcy and voter confidence. We should not have 80% of the vote being counted by partisa companies donating hundred s of thousands of dollars to reelect Bush and keeping their sourcecode and software secret.

Just writing about what I experienced and witnerssing what we did to these voters makes me cry for them and for all the blood slipped in vain.

Answer 2

Something needs to be done because as it is, this is a very unfair way of electing. Most people I speak to dont vote because they say there is nothing to choose from between a bad bunch. Maybe the way to go is to make voting compulsory but allow everybody a postal vote easily. Maybe that would swell the numbers voting.

Answer 3

Most people i have asked this question give a similar answer!Which is that all polititians lie to the public so the element of trust has long gone!If voting was made compulsory not one person in the uk would have a single penny in their pocket as the government would take all earnings of hard working people!Thats why so many criminals are getting away with crime, they have no money that the government can take of them so they are left alone to cause havoc!no wonder genuine hard working people dont want to vote polititions are all corrupt a***h***s out to line their own pockets!

Answer 4

if voting was compulsory you would get a government that the majority of people wanted not like now when your lucky if you get 70%of the people voting in a general election

Answer 5

Most people don't vote because they feel their vote does not count, this is due th the electoral college, (which was put in place because we the people are too stupid and ignorant to elect our leader) and because we are a republic , a republic for those who do not know is ( the public are made to feel they are represented through elections of their local government) but go to your elected Representatives with ideas for positive change and see what you get... That is why allot of people do not vote! I for 1 do vote .

Answer 6

You can't force people to vote. People who aren't paying attention to the issues shouldn't even be allowed to vote. You should have to prove that you know the particulars of the issue/candidate at hand to vote. People that vote just for voting's sake water down the votes of people who actually care and take the time to consider what they are voting on.

Answer 7

Some people don't bother voting because hte vast majority of times the result doesn't get decided by one vote.

Answer 8

I have never voted, and do not intend to. I see this as my right. It is not a question of not being bothered, there is no political party that I wish to mandate to govern. By exercising my right to withhold my vote, I can in all conscience claim that the government is not acting in my name.

Answer 9

Theres not much point as long as we remain in europe. A massive majority of our laws our passed to our goverment by the EU. But we and no one else in europe can vote in or out the leaders of the EU. So it makes no difference who you vote for. Saying we have democracy is untrue. But people refuse to take any notice. Looks like my grandfather should of just not bothered fighting 60 years ago.

Answer 10

I did not vote because my vote alone is not enough to stop the Labour party winning one of their strong holds. There is a more complicated idea of proportional representation but that would mainly benefit the Liberal Democrats.

Answer 11

cant really see the point any more all the partys are the same they all promice everything and pull through with nothing there scared to do anything about the main issues we face in this country and none of them have a clue,and what that bloke said about the bnp getting in thats just stupid theyed just fuk the country up even more hidden agendure or what.