Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?
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VOTE FOR DELETED! Much candidate. WOW!
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@swayde I would vote for "undelete" but you can't flag a deleted post!
Filed Under: @PJH , show us your stuff
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@Kuro said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I would vote for "undelete"
There was nothing to see. Move along, citizen.
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@ben_lubar I'm guessing the WTF is very few of those are (national) election years. For example, most recently it lacks 2014, which were congressional midterms.
The only (federal) elections in 2015 were in Illinois, Mississippi, and New York, due to resignation, death, and pleading guilty to tax evasion respectively. So why does it list 2015, when only a small number of people voted, and not 2014 when everyone eligible did?
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@blakeyrat said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I'm guessing the WTF is very few of those are (national) election years.
Wrong country. @PJH is in the UK, and those were UK general election years.
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@dkf Oh. I thought YouGov was a US site.
Then I don't know what the WTF is.
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@blakeyrat apart from the slightly klunky wording of never not voted, I can't see anything either
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@Jaloopa That's probably why PJH deleted it -- whatever he thought he saw, he looked again and it was fine.
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@blakeyrat said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
Then I don't know what the WTF is.
No idea either. Perhaps it's @PJH? :)
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Goddamn it, is Yougov running again? I thought Russiastan had a 3-term limit.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I thought Russiastan had a 3-term limit.
Let's seeβ¦
candidate.familyName.equals("Putin") == falseso yes.
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@Yamikuronue said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
whatever he thought he saw, he looked again and it was fine.
This.
I thought if I didn't not delete the post it wouldn't not delete the thread....
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Here in Australia, citizens get a choice: you either turn up at a polling place on election day and get your name crossed off the list of eligible voters, or face a fine of $20. Most people turn up; then, having gone to the trouble of turning up, vote.
From the Australian perspective, the effort that party campaigners in so many other countries put into "getting out the vote" - and the fact that the results of so many elections so strongly reflect the effectiveness of that effort, rather than anything like the aggregate preference of the populace as a whole - is completely bizarre.
That said, I'm quite prepared to believe that the prevalence of the donkey vote here looks every bit as bizarre from elsewhere.
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@flabdablet said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
That said, I'm quite prepared to believe that the prevalence of the donkey vote here looks every bit as bizarre from elsewhere
I assume candidate order is randomised to compensate for this? A similar thing can happen in single vote systems where the candidate at the top gets disproportionately many votes
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@Jaloopa said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I assume candidate order is randomised to compensate for this?
Only per election. Within any given election, all ballot papers for any given set of candidates are identical.
Yes, this makes no sense whatsoever.
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I've never voted - where's my radio button?
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@flabdablet said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
Here in Australia, citizens get a choice: you either turn up at a polling place on election day and get your name crossed off the list of eligible voters, or face a fine of $20
I would take the fine every single time.
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@flabdablet In my county, it's 100% vote-by-mail. You don't have to physically go anywhere, it's very nice.
I'm really waiting for enough young people to grow up so the debate goes from, "voting online = horribly awful plague criminal awfulness!" to, "it's 20XX already, why the holy shit can't we vote online?"
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@lucas1 said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I would take the fine every single time.
About 20 years ago I didn't vote in a local election (it was not deliberate, it was a combination of stupidity and inexperience) and when I received the fine notice I wrote explaining my stupidity and asking for exemption. I was excused but I don't think that would work again, nor would it work for someone not as young and inexperience as I.
But the fine might be a bit steeper if you make a habit of not voting:
If the matter is dealt with in court and you are found guilty, you may be fined up to $180 plus court costs and a criminal conviction may be recorded against you.
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@another_sam Well I don't live there, so it won't really ever affect me. I don't bother voting in the UK due to the first past the post system, I live in the nearest equivalent of the Bible belt in the UK. So I can either spoil my ballet paper in the bin or not turn up, there is no difference in outcome so I might as well go for the latter.
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@another_sam said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
About 20 years ago I didn't vote in a local election (it was not deliberate, it was a combination of stupidity and inexperience) and when I received the fine notice I wrote explaining my stupidity and asking for exemption.
Huh, you have compulsory voting even in local elections in your neck of the woods? I didn't realise there were any states that did that; I thought it was just for state and federal elections. I often don't really bother with the local ones, though I suppose I would take the time if it was compulsory :)
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
Huh, you have compulsory voting even in local elections in your neck of the woods?
I was beginnging to worry that I may have been mis-remembering. This may still be true, but I did find this:
Voting is also compulsory in local government elections, except in South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
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Ah, thanks for that; TIL. I was trying to find something relevant on the AEC's website but it didn't mention local elections at all.
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I incentives for morons that don't care to vote are a bad idea.
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@fbmac said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I incentives for morons that don't care to vote are a bad idea.
A voting populace is an educated populace, and is thus less likely to make a typo.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
A voting populace is an educated populace
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@another_sam I assume there's some kind of absentee voting system, right? Like how do your guys in the military vote when they're stationed in bumblefuck?
Just tell them your absentee ballot was lost in the mail.
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@flabdablet said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
@Jaloopa said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I assume candidate order is randomised to compensate for this?
Only per election. Within any given election, all ballot papers for any given set of candidates are identical.
Yes, this makes no sense whatsoever.
I believe this is what you're looking for.
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@fbmac said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I incentives for morons that don't care to vote are a bad idea.
I you missed a word.
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@lolwhat NodeBB + Android kb =
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@dkf said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
@Lorne-Kates said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
A voting populace is an educated populace
I know, but it was worth it to make fun of fbmac's (not yet deleted) typo.
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@Lorne-Kates
Did his account got hacked or something? That post is still there ...@fbmac if you are in trouble but can't answer, please reply with two deleted messages so we can send over the A-team or the Expendables. Whoever offers the cheapest bid for the job.
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Too bad you can't like a deleted post.
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@fbmac said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
I incentives for morons that don't care to vote are a bad idea.
Yes, compulsory voting sucks. However, I happen to think all the alternatives are worse.
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@another_sam what developed countries have compulsory voting?
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@fbmac said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
@another_sam what developed countries have compulsory voting?
I could be going for a whoosh badge here, but... Have you read through this thread at all? Look at my hat!
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@another_sam Brazil has compulsory voting, and we elect the most terrible people imaginable.
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@fbmac said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
we elect the most terrible people imaginable
You need better imagination.
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@dkf try to imagine an american president doing the shit our one did.
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@fbmac said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
Brazil has compulsory voting, and we elect the most terrible people imaginable.
Brazil has an enormous corruption problem. How do you know you elected those people?
The answer to your previous question is Australia has compulsory voting. Whether you could call us developed can be the setup for many jokes. We also elect terrible people, but mostly because we're a country full of immigrants and their descendants who don't want any more immigrants because we saw what happened to the previous inhabitants when we got here and we're paranoid that's going to happen to us.
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@another_sam said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
who don't want any more immigrants because we saw what happened to the previous inhabitants when we got here and we're paranoid that's going to happen to
you don't wanna more immigrants because if it were easy to go there who wouldn't want to go somewhere you're paid 10x more to do the same stuff?
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@fbmac said in Yougov again. Have you voted in every general election?:
try to imagine an american president doing the shit our one did.
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@dkf it seems never was arrested as a terrorist before getting elected, nor did he join an armed group to bring you the joys of communism.
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