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RE: Does your voice (or for that matter, the choice) really matter?

in Deep Dives17 days ago

You get fined if you don't vote? :O That seems like it should be illegal...as for the sausage, a populist party tried to 'bribe' the populace with traditional goodies one time and the intellectual militia snobs never let them hear the end of it. Very calloused making fun of people living in poverty for whom that bribe was valuable, but still, that's the kind of vibe around here.
I agree, if you have someone you specifically don't want to get it, then maybe you should vote. But what if you don't got a preference either way? A lot of people are buying into the whole "vote so that they can't vote for you" type of mentality but I'm not convinced my actions would actually stop them from committing election fraud if that's the plan.

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Yeah no one understands the Aussie fine thing. It's about 200 AUD I think but not sure. And you can always draw a penis on the ballot paper which makes it null and void.