Should voting be compulsory?

Mike Hoxbig

Mike Hoxbig

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So I was thinking, in countries like Australia voting is compulsory by law. Personally I'm tired of the millions of morons who say that their one vote won't make a difference, and I know that people will moan about it being their right to choose whether or not to vote.

But would they even have the right to vote in the first place if others didn't go out and vote to bring about change? I think a lot of people are taking this right for granted, and would sorely regret it if the ruling party took away the right to vote.

So the question is should SA make voting compulsory by law? And how enforceable would it be?
 
No. Waste of resources and it would mean more "uneducated" votes that would go to the ANC
 
Perhaps you can use moron when the vote would count and the country is not dominated by anc tickers.

Have you seen what happens when people make their vote count in africa? Civil war. I know this is going to sound very negative but you don't want a 50/50 election. Could you list off the top of your head which african countries have had successful transitions from one leader to another?

Apart from the blacks taking the 94 election, that was fairly obvious since they could not vote and made up the majority of the vote. You really want to start the whole forcing thing again?

Perhaps the ANC should make it illegal for us to vote, perhaps they should just allow black people to vote? The closer the ANC come to losing the power the faster this country will be destroyed.
 
killadoob said:
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Apart from the blacks taking the 94 election, that was fairly obvious since they could not vote and made up the majority of the vote. You really want to start the whole forcing thing again?

Perhaps the ANC should make it illegal for us to vote, perhaps they should just allow black people to vote? The closer the ANC come to losing the power the faster this country will be destroyed.
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WOt?
 
In Argentina you get fined if you don't vote.
 
killadoob said:
Perhaps you can use moron when the vote would count and the country is not dominated by anc tickers.

Have you seen what happens when people make their vote count in africa? Civil war. I know this is going to sound very negative but you don't want a 50/50 election. Could you list off the top of your head which african countries have had successful transitions from one leader to another?

Apart from the blacks taking the 94 election, that was fairly obvious since they could not vote and made up the majority of the vote. You really want to start the whole forcing thing again?

Perhaps the ANC should make it illegal for us to vote, perhaps they should just allow black people to vote? The closer the ANC come to losing the power the faster this country will be destroyed.
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What a load of BS... elections in SA are governed by laws of the land, not the ANC... You just have it in your mind that ANC would not want to relinquish power because of your misinformation about the Constitution of the Republic... The ANC lost the Western Cape fair and square... Didn't see no genocide there... Did you? People must stop being alarmists... I am sure you are probably one of the people who predicted mayhem and machete killings during the FIFA world cup...
 
satanboy said:
Yes, the ANC is not a black party...has never been.
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Except they believe all whites are criminals and there is an oversupply of coloureds? Try not to kid yourself, the ANC is blacker than this mark on my thumb.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
So I was thinking, in countries like Australia voting is compulsory by law. Personally I'm tired of the millions of morons who say that their one vote won't make a difference, and I know that people will moan about it being their right to choose whether or not to vote.

But would they even have the right to vote in the first place if others didn't go out and vote to bring about change? I think a lot of people are taking this right for granted, and would sorely regret it if the ruling party took away the right to vote.

So the question is should SA make voting compulsory by law? And how enforceable would it be?
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no. just because some people get erections every time election time comes doesn't mean i have to participate in their pathetic lives. if i am ever forced to vote, i will vote the most useless party over and over and over again, to highlight why not everyone should vote.

proudly NOT voting today, it's my choice
 
phaktza said:
Except they believe all whites are criminals and there is an oversupply of coloureds? Try not to kid yourself, the ANC is blacker than this mark on my thumb.
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i've seen wards here in joburg with white candidates and i know people who are white and know Malema personally, and like the guy. until people mature i will not take part in politics ever
 
It just amazes me how in this day and age, people just couldn't give a damn. Especially in SA, rather let someone else do it and then we can bitch and moan later when things are a screw up :mad:
 
zululami said:
What a load of BS... elections in SA are governed by laws of the land, not the ANC... You just have it in your mind that ANC would not want to relinquish power because of your misinformation about the Constitution of the Republic... The ANC lost the Western Cape fair and square... Didn't see no genocide there... Did you? People must stop being alarmists... I am sure you are probably one of the people who predicted mayhem and machete killings during the FIFA world cup...
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The western cape is not SA, they can get it back. Losing their control over SA is where the problems will begin. Fairly basic model they are using, destroy education, destroy service delivery and steal as much as you can while your people become impoverished. It's a tried and tested model through out africa.
 
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smalltownsky said:
i've seen wards here in joburg with white candidates and i know people who are white and know Malema personally, and like the guy. until people mature i will not take part in politics ever
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Yup, I know some of those guys. All about government contracts and permits. Not bad people, but they put business interests above that of the people.
 
satanboy said:
Derek Hanekom

You better go tell him that he is black...
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And I read a story about a black AWB supporter. Unfortunately when you're 99% black you're still black as coal.

But yes you can keep Mike Sutcliffe and Alec Irwin because we don't want them.
 
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