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Compelled to vote
July 6, 2005 1:58 PM
By Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP in The Guardian
By Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP in The Guardian
With typical Labour arrogance, Geoff Hoon proposes that we be fined if we don't vote (Hoon calls for compulsory voting, July 5). Typically in a general election, three-fifths of those who vote in a parliamentary constituency see their vote wasted, under the winner-takes-all electoral system. The situation in Belgium is quite different: who knows if turnout is 90% because of compulsion or because of fair voting?
Those who, like me, have never had the "privilege" of being represented at Westminster by someone they voted for will resent Hoon's preference for compulsion under first-past-the-post over electoral reform.
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