Yep, LUU has once again opened their ballot boxes reminding students that it “only takes two minutes.” Which of course it does if you want to make a very uninformed decision and therefore void the entire point of a democratic election. What is worse is you have to vote for the referendum, NUS elections and union council elections all at the same time so I was unable to vote for the ones I wanted to vote for while making an informed decision at a later date about the ones I had yet to research.
As for encouraging more people to vote – I’m against it. The fewer people vote, the more my vote counts for. The system already works – the people that care already vote and the people that don’t care, don’t vote. Why force people who don’t care to vote? It therefore does not represent the opinion of what people want because the people who actually care have less of a say in who is elected. Anyway, vote for Matt hippies!
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