Coming home from an appointment on Thursday and seeing the vote catching signs up along the roadsides I remarked to Pisces that we hadn't got our ballot papers yet. Got home, looked in the letterbox and there they were.
Local Government elections are the only elections here that are not compulsory and many people don't bother to vote although everyone who is eligible gets sent their ballot papers. Since it's only a matter of reading the enclosed information about the candidates, deciding who to vote for then filling in the forms, putting them in the prepaid envelopes and sending them off I find this hard to understand. I suspect in part it's because these elections are local and many don't see that there's any point.
Pisces and I don't agree. Who is voted in can have a major impact on our lives on a local level and we feel we should have a say in who represents us. We've both been interested in politics all our adult lives. It's how we met and, although we're no longer actively involved, we're still avid followers of what's going on in all levels of government - it's a rare day when we don't discuss politics - and consider our votes carefully.
With that in mind we intend to sit down in the next few days and thoughtfully fill out our ballots. I hope that others do the same because the decisions our local councillors make will affect us for years to come.
2 comments:
It is strange, and apparently universal, that local elections attract very little attention, yet they affect our daily lives directly. Go figure!
So it's not just here. I find it very odd.
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