Spoil your ballot

April 19, 2005, 1:17 pm

Those that “can’t be bothered to vote” or think “they’re all the same” and won’t be trotting down to the community hall to pop their ballot in the paper miss the point. We shout and dance about being a “democratic” country and flog this ideal to anyone who will listen (and a few who don’t want to listen as well). In this country people have died for the vote; no more… the only thing that many seem to vote for now is big brother or pop idol. This strikes me as a bit rude. Apathy and laziness are no excuses for not exercising your democratic right. Even if they are all the same there is something you can do to register your protest. That is spoil your ballot paper. Be creative, make the returning officer smile with a well crafted cartoon covering the boxes. It is the least you can do if you “think they are all the same”. In a moment of civic duty I investigated setting up a web site dedicated to spoiling the paper, but alas all the domain names had been taken. So here is someone elses call to action… http://www.spoilyourvote.co.uk/