Maybe the whole world should get a say?

[girlyswot]

You Should Be Allowed to Vote

You got 11/15 questions correct. Generally speaking, you're very well informed. If you vote this election, you'll know exactly who (and what) you'll be voting for. You're likely to have strong opinions, and you have the facts to back them up.

Should You Be Allowed to Vote?

Comments

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I should, apparently. I guessed a few, though.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

That's all right. You can always guess when you're filling in the ballot paper, too.

[amamama.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't that make for an interesting campaign? And yes, I should be allowed to vote. I'm obviously very good at guessing - I got 14/15, but have no idea which one was wrong. Heh.

[crumplehornedki.livejournal.com]

I only got 9 right! I really should stop zoning out the political segment of the news lol

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

I should be allowed to vote too but I had to guess some of the more obscure US ones and I had no idea about the South American president.

It's compulsory to vote here. In the last elections we had, Dave made a new voting box and voted for our dog. This is legal - sort of - even though not turning up isn't. And telling people this is a legal way of not voting for an official candidate can get you sent to prison.

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

Whoops, really shopuldn't have said that should I!

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I do think it's outrageous that you are not legally allowed to abstain in Australia. I can see the point of making everyone fill in a ballot paper, but you really ought to be allowed to spoil the paper as a genuine political choice. Though voting for the dog is almost as good as abstaining, I suppose...

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

If it wasn't compulsory, a lot of people wouldn't bother. The level of interest in politics and world events is extremely low here - far lower than in the UK. (I was attending one of the Universities here when Bush invaded Iraq and there was absolutely nothing - no posters, no protests, no discussion, not even an acknowledgement that it was happening. I felt like I was in a parallel universe or something. I was at university during the Falklands and worked next door to Manchester University during the first Iraq War and it was impossible to avoid them.) The preferential voting system can be complicated. There was one election where the ballot paper was the size of a tablecloth in one constituency. I can see the point of it being compulsory although I still find the fact that it is compulsory to exercise my democratic right rather odd.

[grandma-kate.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing since I voted by mail more than a week ago.
'You Should Be Allowed to Vote

You got 15/15 questions correct.
Generally speaking, you're very well informed.

If you vote this election, you'll know exactly who (and what) you'll be voting for.
You're likely to have strong opinions, and you have the facts to back them up.'

[daksian.livejournal.com]

I got 13/15. Alas, I am Canadian, so I cannot vote for the next leader of the free world. :/ *coughcoughObamacoughcough*

[dogstar101.livejournal.com]

Phew - 11. That's not so bad ;)