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30th April 2019, 11:27 PM #1.
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Voted early - way to go.
SWMBO is going to be away on election day so today we dropped into an early polling place so she could do the business and thought, as I'm here I might as well vote.
As we arrived I spotted an empty parking bay right outside the front door so we didn't have to deal with the pamphleteers who were all hanging around the middle of the carpark. One did come running over but we made it inside the door in time.
Inside there was one person in front of us and we were done and dusted in 2 minutes.
Later I read that over 120,000 people voted on the first day the early polling places opened (yesterday) - that's twice as many as the first day on the 2016 election. I think that says we've all had a gut full of the advertising and BS.
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30th April 2019, 11:43 PM #2
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30th April 2019, 11:43 PM #3
Yebbut what if you were in Qld and were going to vote One Nation (somehow!) in the Senate. You go and vote yesterday or today and come home only to see vids of the goose you just voted for......
What if, in 1993, you'd voted early for the Libs and then seen the Mike Willesee train wreck interview with John Hewson....(esp if you were a cake shop owner without autistic maths skills)
I suspect in either case your lower sphincter might tighten.
Yeah o'course we've had a gutful, but we have to let the journos conduct their examinations for the full course to make sure exposure of the facts is as full as it can be.
Only time I can see it being ok to vote early is if you know you are going to vote informal (which is a legitimate message-sending vote in itself)
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30th April 2019, 11:50 PM #4
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30th April 2019, 11:57 PM #5I got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.
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1st May 2019, 12:11 AM #6
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1st May 2019, 12:27 AM #7.
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Oh not that old claptrap again.
Anyone that has to change away from a party based on the vids of a goose, or change their vote based on last nights tweedle dumb and tweedle dee show deserves to have their lower sphincter tighten.
The 1993 cake shop incident - crikey is that all you can come up with? - it sounds like a month python sketch.
Anyway - nothing that WA does electorally influences the election outcome anyway - so we might as well not vote.
And remember no matter who you vote for you always get a politician.
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1st May 2019, 12:45 AM #8
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1st May 2019, 10:49 AM #9
It's hardly old Bob - pre-polling is becoming very popular in recent years and so this situation takes on more gravity. It's hardly claptrap either. I think I read that they are expecting double the pre-poll voters this time? A 100% increase in three years is huge.
What, so we should kill off investigative journalism because people don't need to know the truth about what their politicians get up to? That's the logical conclusion of what you are saying. For some of the followers of the "vids" party I suspect it might be the last straw, just like it was for the leader, and a lot of the followers obviously "think" like that particular leader.
I would suggest that the country may well have dodged a bullet because of that exposè. Maybe a seat in the Senate was unachievable from second place, but now it surely is out of the question (even though the ballot papers have been printed). We need our Law makers to be of good character, regardless of whether they have a family or not.
No, there are other examples. Those two were just the current one and the most famous one. There was a massive budget black hole incident some years ago ($6 bill unaccounted for expenditure, by one of the major parties). Whatever it was, the numbers were wildly inaccurate.
"The Cake Shop Sketch" does have a certain ring to it though.....
In any case it is not how many examples I can come up with, it's the principle behind why voting early may not be such a good idea (in some elections, anyway). There are always many many voters who have not made up their mind during the campaign - some right up until the day. An exposè like we have seen will surely help them to decide.
In a different scenario, what if you were going to vote for one of the majors (which is the most probable scenario) and there was an exposè that showed that one of their foundation policies was never intended to be implemented - it was just a massive vote catcher to gain power for three years. It was a policy that had swung your vote, you vote early, the exposè is aired. How do you feel then eh? I know I'd feel bloody ropeable and ripped off.
It's the marginal seats and the swing voters that affect the outcome, no matter where they are. Safe seats and rusted on voters could (usually) be taken out of the equation just like "pairing" in the house. Your comment suggests that you might continue to vote for the person or party exposed during the campaign, regardless of what's been exposed, simply because you think your vote doesn't matter. Our vote always matters.
We have one of the best electoral systems in the world on two counts: people are forced to have a say (even if that is informal voting, which says something), and we have preferential voting (which needs a little tweaking). We should value it while we can as it may not be there forever. We should also value investigative journalism while it still exists - it is already under threat with the closing of so many outlets and concentration of media power into just a few pairs of hands around the world. One of them will die in the next few years or so, but one wonders what might follow him.
If we are apathetic about our democracy then we will lose it - no question, especially in these somewhat more dangerous days. Just because things have largely always been the same for us Baby Boomers does not mean that they can't change very rapidly indeed in the current ultra-fast world. A stroke of the pen from our largest trading partner and we would be rooted. My partner comes from Argentina - we don't appreciate the easy ride Australia has had.
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1st May 2019, 11:16 AM #10
I've just seen yet another example in this morning's news. One of the major parties has dumped a candidate for expressing hateful views against a particular religion.
What if you were from that religion and had pre-polled to vote for him yesterday? You'd feel sick to your stomach, regardless of whether he was sacked now or sacked later. It might even turn you off that particular party completely so you would feel as though you had voted incorrectly.
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1st May 2019, 11:40 AM #11.
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This doesn't bother me as I start out by considering ALL policies as "exposed" or at least highly unlikely to be implemented at all, or anywhere near the original claims.
Many of the so called policies are meaningless/vague and always estimated in terms of funding if they intend to meet targets.
Once they get in they find they can't afford to implement many of them so they "select" what they want to implement (core and non-core promises) and then many are blocked by the senate or even factions of their own party.
Then there's the increasing amount of time spent on not passing any policies, just endless bickering between and inside parties, there's no real interest in advancing the country - just hanging on to power - just look at the last couple of governments we've had.
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1st May 2019, 12:34 PM #12
That's a very jaded and cynical view, but I'm not saying it's not at least partially justified.
However, how do you decide who to vote for, or do you just vote informal every time these days? (which would seem to be the only logical choice if you don't believe any of what they say, or that any good will come from it)
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1st May 2019, 01:19 PM #13
But - what about if we don't get to hear that one of these miscreants went to a strip club or said something less than politically correct about someone's religion or sexual preferences the WEEK AFTER they are elected?
Can we call the election null and void because all the information was not made available in advance?
All of them are guilty of SOMETHING that they would rather we did not know about.
If the political parties worked as hard at governing the country for the benefit of all as they do going around searching for buckets of $#IT to tip over each other we would all be far better off.I got sick of sitting around doing nothing - so I took up meditation.
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1st May 2019, 02:39 PM #14.
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1st May 2019, 03:14 PM #15
If I go on poling day, rest assured the minders leave me alone, living in a small town the local 'minders' recognise me and by now know well enough to leave me alone. But to try and play the game I hang around till there is only me heading for the entry door, they all quickly find other stuff to do.
I am not a bear, nor a Staffy bull terrier, nor look like atilla the hun they have just learnt that I dont need their wastage paper forms and if they force it upon me, I'll find a very interesting place on their person, so it cant be used again.I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds
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