dapunka <dapunka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On 29 Jun, 15:17, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>>
>>
>> > ____/ dapunka on Friday 29 June 2007 13:13 : \____
>>
>> >> On 26 Jun, 11:18, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> EC threat to BBC over downloads
>>
>> >> <snipped for brevity>
>>
>> >> If you're a UK citizen, you can sign an e-petition against the Beeb's
>> >> DRM download debacle at
>> >>http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/
>>
>> > All the petitions I've signed for Number 10 have been ignored, even when
>> > thousands of people were involved. The government is moved by the money and
>> > many signatures will only lead to some polite and short formal reply. It's a
>> > waste of time.
>>
>> I must protest :-) Taking an active part in any democratic process is
>> never a waste of time. Even spoiling a ballot paper is better than not
>> turning up.
>
> Yeah, that's what I've often done in elections. When you arrive at
> the polling station and are given your voting slip, only to find that
> the "choices" are largely interchangable, sometimes the only sane
> thing to do is to draw a line through the lot, and write "None of the
> above".
>
> It's a pity spoilt ballot papers aren't officially counted and
> included in the results. A "Don't Vote" Party would probably get a
> lot of non-votes.
>
Good point. People got non-vote for them. If we had a PR system, we'd
probably get a good stack of not-MPs :-)
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