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Have you voted today?

Written by Matt B · first published 04/06/2009

There is still time to get out to your local polling station and show the world that you giv a damn about where you live even if you tick boxes at random. The fact that people show up to vote at all is important for each area.

The feeling on the ground appears to be that turn out will be low at arround 20% to 30% of people actually showing up to vote. So it seems that MPs have done a great deal of harm to democracy with their cheating and taking attitude. The fact that "everyone is doing it" does not make it right for you to do it.

Sadly this means that we run a greater than average risk of getting despots, crackpots and other assorted detritus of politics running things in KCC and the EU for the next few years. It's not to late yet...

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