re: the ultimate elections question (this year) by solitaryascidian

September 20, 2006 07:24 AM

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ok internet, i'm desperate here, so help me.
less than 10 days to elections and i still can't decide who are the best candidates. we have to choose president, state governor, senate, federal and state parlament members.
i've read and watched interviews, debates, campaings, i kept track of candidates past history, government programs, promises, and the more i learn the more i hate them all.
i didn't want to vote fot the less worse, but it seems nobody is better. the only candidate i always voted for since i was old enough to vote is running for senate but he allied himself with some bad company - that guy whose assistant was arrested with thousands of dollars hiden in his undies, for example, is on tv all the time saying how good friends they are.
if i decide to vote, it's 2 hours on a bus to arrive at my district. if i decide to vote for him, and can't choose others, i can vote "white", and so invalidating the votes for other positions. if i decide not to vote and go to the beach, i won't be punished because of living in another city, but then i won't be allowed to bitch about how bad a work they're doing for the next 4 years (and i care about that).
so what do i do?

results 37 votes

vote for the less worse candidates on all positions (18 votes)
 49%
go and vote "white" on all positions (10 votes)
 27%
vote for the candidates who have no chance of winning at all, so you won't be guilty of what the others will do in charge (5 votes)
 14%
stop caring, it's not worthy the hassle (1 vote)
 3%
other (comment) (0 votes)
 0%
beach for you, your legs could do with some tanning (3 votes)
 8%
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  • solitaryascidian says:

    there is an catch 22 here. a party can just exist if it has X votes. if it got less than X on the last elections, the party will be dissolved. bad as it sounds, in the current situation i tend to believe it's a good idea here.

    Sep 21, 2006 03:59 PM
  • cce says:

    yay brazilian compulsory elections! voting "white" is the opposite of the null vote, right? you should vote the null vote!

    Sep 21, 2006 05:32 PM
  • solitaryascidian says:

    actually i don't know the practical difference between white and null. there is a white button on the voting machine that you can press, and that's voting white, and there is when you click on a number that doesn't belong to any candidate, and that's null. but at the end both kinds are just not counted. (i researched this when i was considering the options)

    Sep 21, 2006 07:21 PM
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