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  1. Online vote or polling station I still voted, though this was the first time ever I almost didn’t. Weirdly because I’m just fed up with it, all the political lies, the amount of times we have had to vote recently and that I actually don’t find myself supporting any of the parties. But still I voted, because it’s important and our future, even if I just voted for the lesser of two evils. #bloggerclubuk

  2. The Mummy Bubble

    Totally agree that we all should use our right to vote. People died to win the vote for all. I think better education in schools and more encouragement to engage young people in politics would help. However it has become a bit of a broken system where it’s easy to become disenchanted with the parties. New blood is needed in politics, maybe a new party?

    • I believe politics should definitely be taught in schools – it’s such a big thing and I think it’s important that people learn about it and if it was taught in schools, at least then people would have the basics.

  3. I absolutely agree that voting has to be made mandatory, (like Australia) and we should be able to do it online. If I have to go through all the procedures with processing my tax return then the same security could be put in place for voting. I’m not sure I agree with linking in benefits though because your assuming and linking apathy to people on benefits. #BloggersClubUK

  4. Sadie

    I think online voting has to become an option sooner or later, and hopefully that would tackle those voters who can’t be bothered (or, like my husband, have to travel away from home at too short notice to switch to postal voting). As for tackling those who don’t vote out of lack of understanding or apathy…maybe making politics more transparent and simple to understand would work…but that’s the impossible dream!
    #BloggerClubUK

  5. Jemma @popcornlunchuk

    Really thought provoking!!! I could not agree more about online voting, if we can bank online, do tax returns online, file Company documents online then we should sure as hell be able to vote online! I’m so surprised it hasn’t already beeen rolled out #BloggerClubUK

  6. Voting online does sound like a good idea. I think there should be more adverts on TV and across media as well and education in schools. Even if you feel you can’t put a cross next to one of the main parties, you can still do a protest vote for one of the smaller ones or just put a big cross through the whole sheet, that at least would show that you turned up!

  7. In the past, I definitely found reasons to not vote but now I feel it is so important. The result this time really shows that if more younger voters show up, a change is possible.

    • It’s funny because now, I wonder how the younger voters don’t care about the future of the country being that its their future, but when I think back, I don’t think I really started to take an active interest in politics until my late 20s.

  8. I agree with voting independent. My brother and I had a conversation about that the other day. We were shocked at how many people didn’t know there were two other people on the ballot during the presidential elections and all they had to do was go online and check them out. Just because the media didn’t help those two doesn’t mean they weren’t there. I voted independent in the presidential election and I don’t understand why we don’t already have online voting. I agree with you completely Debbie! Thanks for hosting #bloggerclubuk

    • That’s shocking that people didn’t even realise there were other options available! I can’t understand why not either, its like one of the most important processes is still stuck in the past! Thanks for joining us 🙂

  9. We live in France and made sure I got my vote in for the Referendum and the General Election. I do think the system is flawed. In our constituency it wouldn’t have mattered if we had voted or not, it’s a strong Labour majority. But there were some shocks!

  10. It’s a tricky one, I think 70% is actually considered a good voter turn out! I agree that people should all vote. But what concerns me are people voting who don’t know anything about the election. There was something up to public vote here a few years ago & it should have gone through to bring Ireland up to the standard of other EU countries, but it didn’t. I think it was down to people who misunderstood (partly because the opposition was making claims that were far fetched) so the power of the vote is a big one, an important one & I think if people vote that they should look into the situation they are voting about first.

    • I totally agree – people do often vote with no real idea of what they are/aren’t voting for. I think some of the bigger issues like the one you mentioned here, Brexit etc should never have gone to a public vote.

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