everybody SHOULD be made to vote

[Jelliedeels]

EU effects us all.

I think everyone should be made to vote that is over 18 years of age.

I'm sure the "I don't know people" still moan at politics and the country .

AIBU

Yanbu. If you don't want to vote for anyone, or anything, spoil your ballot. Spoiled papers are counted, iirc. If the majority of ballot papers are spoiled, an election should be re-run. That would force politicians of all flavours to radically rethink their campaigns to speak to those who are completely disenfranchised, rather than addressing those who will vote anyway.
Complaining about how things are run is illogical if you haven't bothered to turn out and vote, or even get your ballot paper delivered to you by post, imo.

I don't understand it, I don't know what we should do, i don't know what to do for the best therefore I would rather not vote. I vote when I want to and I won't if i don't.
I like to vote when I know what I am clear in my choice. ]
This time I am not.

It's OK shove

Look.on the BBC news website. There's a Reality Check section. I'm sorry you find it a pain to get to the polling station - you must surely be able to make it between 7 am and 10 pm. Perhaps we are pompous but we make a special trip with our dd. I even told her I spoilt my paper the one time I did it. Otherwise I tell her voting is private and no one can tell you what to do.
Please take a look at bbc reality check. And please make time to vote even if you write "you are all as bad as each other ".

I hate people saying "someone died for you to get the vote so you better use it". Really it was for the right to vote and that also means the right to choose.

I vote so I have the right to complain about the outcome of I don't like it. Someone who doesn't vote doesn't have a right to complain because they didn't use their vote when they can IMO.

Don't agree with making it a legal requirement, especially not this referendum. Some will abstain because they don't know which one to vote for and others because they don't really care either way. The right to vote also means the right not to vote.

Hate me if you must but you have a social responsibility to vote (or spoil your ballot)

Is your employer stopping you from going?

Yabu

It shouldn't be obligatory. Not much of a free society if you are made to vote.

The choice to vote or not is rightly down to the individual.

I believe a vote should be of someone freewill. By making it law to have to vote you are taking away someone freewill.

needascarf be perfectly happy with your decision, it's your choice. Don't be bullied.

Through, it isn't about making you vote it's about making you put your ballot paper in the ballot box. There's a difference. And it should be a social obligation.

I don't agree. It should be a choice to go to the ballot box or not IMO.

This referendum is the proverbial "it". I am truly astonished at the idea that some people won't vote/or spoil their paper.

Hate me if you must but you have a social responsibility to vote (or spoil your ballot)

No, you just think we do. Others think differently.

Making people vote is as wrong as not allowing people to vote, for me.

Lavender mentions social responsibility. Im inclined to agree with her. What about jury service for example? That is a social responsibility and you can't easily not take part in that. Some things are part and parcel of being part of the country we live in. I don't see how taking steps to ensure more people vote equals dictatorship? That is a stretch.

There is also the opportunity for people in this country to stand on a single issue. I remember when Martin Bell stood against Neil Hamilton. We now have an apathetic electorate and Neil Hamilton is a member of the Welsh Assembly!

Lavender

You are obviously the one with the social responsibility, so take your vote and I hope it makes you very happy
Voting would be a pita for me, I just cba.

Up thread someone said they hated those who went on about people dying so you could get the right to vote. So apparently it deserves hatred to say that. There are women today in 2016 who aren't allowed to vote because they are women. There are ordinary people across the world today in 2016 who can't choose who governs them. Bet they cba either.

lavendar

Maybe some of them aren't bothered. If it's their culture they are hardly going to object. If they leave their culture they'd be as entitled as you or I.
It doesn't mean they'd be queuing up to vote though.

YABU why would you want someone to have a say if they can't be bothered?

Really New. Is that what you think.

Newlife yeah, like being treated as a second class citizen, being prosecuted and beaten for being raped etc. they probably aren't that bothered as its their culture and of course, it's really easy to leave that culture with no passport or access to money and such like.

People are so quick to dismiss the suffragette movement these days and what they did for women as they don't feel that it is relevant these days- however, women are fighting and dying for these rights all over the world like lavender said and you make an ignorant statement like that?