To ask if you will actually vote?

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Not asking who you're voting for, but are you actually going to make the effort of voting (by going to the polling station on the day or postal vote)?

Am on the app so voting options don't seem to be available.

Yes. I've voted in every election and referendum since I became eligible- and that's a long time ago.
People sacrificed a lot and fought hard to win universal suffrage and it's an insult to them not to exercise your right to vote. People have no right to complain about the government and town councils etc if you don't even engage in the process.
I admit it is getting harder and harder to find someone I actually think deserves my vote but even if one day I end up going to the polling station and spoiling my ballot paper I will still do that.

I probably will, I have a postal vote. I like that I have quite a few days to vote and send it so I don't have to be up for doing it just on one specific day. But life gets busy and I have admin tasks dating back to Christmas that I haven't got around to doing, so it might not happen. I'm in a very safe seat so it won't make any difference to the outcome so that's not very motivating.

Yes of course.

Absolutely, women fought long and hard to give me that right, abso bloody lutely I will vote. I was given a say and I will have my say.

amd quite frankly I judge anyone who doesn’t. Or who wastes it.

Please vote. You don't have to like them. Until new parties are voted in, nothing will change. Even if this election is just about destroying majorities, it's the first step towards better.

If people like you don't vote, then Labour will continue being awful in Wales.

Yep absolutely, and the polling station is next to dd's school so won't have to go out of my way at all

Yes. I live in a constituency that has had a Conservative MP for 87 years without a break and it's bloody well time we did something about that. It usually feels pointless to vote (but I do it anyway) but this time - maybe? Just maybe?

Absolutely. My belived nan, who fought valiantly for women's rights when women had pretty few, would spin in her grave if I didn't

That's my beloved nan, not believed

I’ll be honest, I’ve only ever voted once and that was brexit.

Im going to vote this time, although I have no idea who for but have been trying to google manifestos. Don’t think they’re all out yet though?

Just read the OP and conflated voting in the election with the comment about enabling voting on MN...

Surely more people would be more likely to vote if they could download an app and click a button!

Honestly? I dont know.

If I don't, it will be the first time but I genuinely don't feel I can put my X by any of them with any honesty or conviction.

I don't want the Tories in but I don't wany any of the others in either.

Yes, of course.

I know someone who is in her 40’s and has never voted; she thinks it’s all a waste of time and ridiculous and is quite scathing of people who do. She has a tendency to talk absolute crap and think she knows everything about everything so I’m not surprised at her stance on voting.

I have felt this before (still voted but felt a bit futile) but this year the gap in forecasting has changed so much.
I’m excited this year that my vote counts that bit more!
Whatever your vote, vote… this year of ‘change’ more than ever 😊

I cant see the point a single vote never makes a difference to the eventual outcome so I’m being logical

If you don't vote, you veto any right to EVER moan about anything in this country ever again!

Everyone should vote, even if you spoil the ballot paper as a protest to all candidates being shit!

Yes, I will vote. As always.

BitOutOfPractice
And im going to say it. People who don’t vote are, to my mind, a bit pathetic. The “they’re all the same” schtick doesn’t wash with me either.

My neighbour spends ages debating and arguing about politics with randoms on FB - yet she doesn't vote. She's fond of waylaying me to talk about politics too but I resolutely change the subject even though I know it annoys her. Timewaster in all ways.

I always voted, but I haven't decided if I will yet.
I live in a very very safe Labour seat, so safe that the Conservatives aren't standing. So the choices are Workers Party of Britain, Lib/dems, Greens, Rejoin EU or Labour.
I expect 3 of them to loose their deposit, I'm just not 100% sure which 3

Yes. It will be for the best of a bad lot, but yes.

Soiling the Ballot paper is the very definition of not voting, what on earth are you on about. Voting is you select a candidate. Put your mark in the box and submit it, spoiling the paper is not voting.

And of course if 20 or 30 percent or more of the population think this it makes an enormous difference. Every single vote counts.

www.votenone.org.uk/uk-unheard-third.html

A staggering 34% of the electorate, doesn't vote. That is 15 million people if the electorate is approx 47 million. That is more than the 14 million complete and utter d*ckheads than voted for Boris in 2019.

Even with the 20 million votes wasted due to FPTP, your vote can still count if you vote to keep out a candidate you don't want.

Yes, I’ll vote Labour

Yes, I would never give up my vote.

In the absence of RON, spoiling your ballot is at least an active protest of a sort, albeit not a very useful one.