When I turned 18 I went to vote to see what it was all about. I never voted in National or Local elections again after that. The only other time that I did vote was in the joining/not joining the Common market vote, in which I voted 'No.'
How anybody can say that they won when they get 20% of the total votes made is beyond me. The total number of voters maybe 100,000 but 75,000 don't bother to vote. So the 'winner' gets 20% of the 25,000 or 5,000 votes. To me, the other 95,000 possible votes were against him/her. Everyone should vote, by law, then a real view of what the country wants could be shown. The next best thing is proportional representation which will be better than it is at present with first past the post, but not as good as a total turnout.
Then there is election fraud. Asian families tend to vote as the head of the family decrees. Another scam is packing the voters roll with fake people at an address and getting a vote for each one. Under 'rent a room' rules,Social Security allow three beds to a room for bed and breakfast. So a three bedroom house can have 12/15 people living there. So 12/15 polling cards is not unusual in some areas. These give 12/15 votes. The names also allow a dodgy landlord to claim money per person for rent and breakfast for each person. The money is actually paid until the authorities are notified that the person has moved, if he/she ever exited in the first place !!! If a home visit is ever made, then the stage is either set with clothing or the story goes that the person 'just left yesterday.'
Of course, each name is also credit worthy and loads of credit cards may be fraudulently applied for using the fictitious names. So one dodgy person can have 12/15 votes, have 12/15 incomes for bed and breakfast and have 12/15 residents who are credit worthy,automatically, as there are no judgements against the fiction name Pays the mortgage and the Lamborghini I suppose!!
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