Tuesday, July 24, 2007

"Low quality votes"

Stephen Franks has a post about low quality votes.

I asked [ The justice and Electoral Select committee] what purpose was served by wailing about low turn out among young people,for example, and coaxing out low quality votes. How dare you call someone’s vote “low quality” was reaction. What else do you call reluctant votes from deeply uninterested and often profoundly ignorant voters.

Now research has shown that health boards disproportionately feature people whose names begin with a,b,c or d simply because their names head the ballot. Ticking the first name that appears is a perfect example of a "low quality" vote.

2 comments:

Oswald Bastable said...

I called them 'Shit useless Votes'

Anonymous said...

haha, they say that with a monarchy you have a 50% percent chance of getting a decent government. Either the monarch is decent, or he isn't. With democracy, however, you always get the stupid people in as well. *sigh*