Vote, or keep quiet

Agreed! Great thread! Get out and VOTE people. A failure to vote for your party, is a vote for the party you do not want. EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTS!
 
BigBullBully said:
Do you see the problem here.
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Yes, I see a problem. Your attitude. You can never make the difference you want by doing nothing. The only difference you will be making is to assist the other parties in growing stronger.
Even if we lose the election, the sheer numbers of our vote is significant in and of itself. And the opposition parties who keep the government in check need to be made as strong as possible.
 
Add the fact that it is a ward based system (as well) so it is easier for an opposition party to garner sufficient votes to win your ward. If you have a ward councillor things tend to get done around you!
 
BigBullBully said:
Wrong this country is a democracy (that’s what it is right ?) therefore I have every right to complain while exorcising my right NOT to vote.
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Not really, no. Choosing not to vote is tantamount to accepting any outcome from a vote.

I'll put it like this: You and a group of 4 friends (with you it makes 5 people in total) go to a restaurant. Its the type of place where you order a set menu for the table. 2 of your friends want to have set menu A while the other 2 want B. You don't seem to be paying much attention, perhaps you don't see the point... You pass on the vote.

Eventually a decision is made among the 4 friends who did vote and they are going to go for set menu A.

A arrives.

You see a bowl of steaming snails (I chose them arbitrarily, most people don't like them but I do) now in this hypothetical you hate snails, you can't touch them.

But hey, if you voted or at least told your friends that you didn't eat them before they were ordered you may have had menu B instead, full of nom-nommies.

Can you complain? No you can't. You should have piped up earlier.

Now I'm not naive and I know things are different in the real world. But when you vote you take an active stance against or for something. When you /quit you do nothing, you cant complain because you gave that up when you gave up on voting.

Its the same kind of thing when people see something they don't like and say "Hm.. SOMEONE should really do something about that", they never take any initiative themselves.

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I just got back from registering, for the first time. My vote is something the ANC shall never have.
 
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Brawler said:
yeah that is it and the voting station finder is not working in chrome. Can anyone give me the address of the one in Rondebosch please?
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I tried but I get a long list, there are a few places named Rondebosch. 3 Gauteng ones 1 Eastern Cape and 1 Western Cape.

Can you be more specific? If its a Gauteng one is it; Eersterust, Kempton Park or Benoni.

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You have to select where you live on the map though, so you enter your address then click and only then will it show you where to go. - So I won't be able to do it for you without getting to know your almost exact location.

I suggest either browsing the map to find your house, without using the search bar (the search bar does not work on chrome, but it does on firefox). Or using IE/Opera/Firefox etc to find your location.
 
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Brawler said:
Western Cape.
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There are a few around the center point of Rondebosch, I'm afraid I won't be able to tell you where to go. I edited my post above with a few tips.

I'll pop a quote of it here

You have to select where you live on the map though, so you enter your address then click and only then will it show you where to go. - So I won't be able to do it for you without getting to know your almost exact location.

I suggest either browsing the map to find your house, without using the search bar (the search bar does not work on chrome, but it does on firefox). Or using IE/Opera/Firefox etc to find your location.
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Thanks.. Going for a sunday drive now and will go register
 
Congratulations to all the misguided fools who really believe that their vote is going to halt SA's slide down the slope to destruction. The only thing you accomplish by casting your vote, is to legitimise our "democratic" one-party state in the eyes of the world - and the only party that benefits from that legitimacy is the ANC.

So when you're registering and casting your vote, remember this: any vote you cast is, effectively, a vote for the ANC.
 
darkevil said:
I have loads of friends who have basically given up thinking that their vote counts for nothing.
How many other possible voters out there share the same feeling of apathy is problematic to say the least.
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How many people think their vote don't count and at the end you have hundreds of people not voting as each one believe their vote won't help.
 
The_Assimilator said:
Congratulations to all the misguided fools who really believe that their vote is going to halt SA's slide
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Why, thank you. :) At last someone happy to congratulate me and the many others who feel compelled to cast a vote regardless of the prophets (no reference to MyBB's very own prophet) of doom.

So maybe there will be a slide... but I'll feel better knowing my vote got my preferred candidate and party closer to office ;)
 
The_Assimilator said:
Congratulations to all the misguided fools who really believe that their vote is going to halt SA's slide down the slope to destruction. The only thing you accomplish by casting your vote, is to legitimise our "democratic" one-party state in the eyes of the world - and the only party that benefits from that legitimacy is the ANC.

So when you're registering and casting your vote, remember this: any vote you cast is, effectively, a vote for the ANC.
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Tsk. Such a defeatist attitude. Every vote counts, regardless of what you may think.

"A small leak can sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin
 
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