PaulRogan: Weekend Voting

Paul | 29 August 2008 | 08:23

Weekend Voting

or Gordon's ‘Wunder-Waffen' to get re-elected, whenever the General Election is called?

The Government has announced that it wishes to consult about shifting Election Day from Thursdays to the Weekends to ‘make voting more accessible and encourage a higher turnout.' It feels this will ‘reinvigorate democracy and forge a new relationship between the citizen and the state'.

Hey Gordon, the best way to do this is to have an election next week, any day you choose and let The People make a democratic choice about you!

Of course, only a cynic would think that shifting Election Day to the weekend is the ‘big bang weapon' in the Government's armoury to win the war... sorry, election. Pretty well all boundaries have now been manipulated.... sorry re-drawn, to aid a Labour vote, what else is left? Burning down Parliament, blaming a religious minority (proberbly the Muslims rather than the Jews) and declaring marshall law and a further term for the Government for the sake of the Nation's stability could be ‘the final solution'.

No, but a real cynic may say, no chance of weekends, the religious lobby will not want this.... not the Sunday Brigade.... the Friday/Saturday lot will scupper this me boyo!

Seriously, anybody wishing to get consulted, click on.....

http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/cp1308.htm

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Geoff Thompson

on 29 August 2008 at 22:07

The only way to get the greatest number of the Electorate to Vote on any Election Day is to make Voting compulsory as is done in Australia. They either vote or pay a small fine if they don't want to be bothered to vote. This way they have a near 100% turnout and get a more representative Government to run Their Country, unlike The U.K. we usually get well below 50% turnout even in a General Election and that is why so many people feel The Government does not represent them.
Food for thouight?
Regards Geoff Thompson.

Paul

on 30 August 2008 at 08:01

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i agree with some sort of financial incentive to encourage voting. would rather have a carrot than stick and would therefore support a rebate of say 5% off council tax for those who vote. this would be easy for the council to manage as they issue council tax bills and manage the electoral roll and services.