Police Commissioner elections

[sonic_hawk]

Picture the scene: it's 9:45pm and two blokes hurry out to the car, because they've belatedly remembered it's polling day. They drive swiftly to the voting station and hurry inside. Yep, just in time, and no queues. They are handed their precious voting slips.... retire to the booths... and then spoil their papers!

My mate scrawled "anarchy & peace" on his paper, and I wrote "nothing'll change!" on mine.  We take some silly photos.  Exchange a few cheerful remarks with the polling staff, and then bugger off back home.  And then post the pix on the Internet and make sneering remarks about politics and crime figures.

Yep. That's democracy in action.

[Rob W]

It is "democracy in action". You went to the polling station and used your democratic right to spoil the ballot paper, thus making your point.

It's the apathetic and/or lazy members of the public who have demonstrated democracy inaction. Like, I'm afraid to say, me (icon with embarrassed face)

[rockprof]

There appears to be a lack of faith in the entire system.....

[Arjayay]

Strange how, in the PC elections, the number of spoilt ballot papers is not being announced
I know several people who did, and wonder how close "spoilt ballots" were to being elected?

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

[Pete T]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-20355358

This is brilliant..