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Still though, I dont get why anyone would bother going just to show "they'd have liked to vote but didn't"?
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Not turning up to the polls can be and is explained away in any number of ways by the candidates as well as the media, bourgeoisie or otherwise: Terminator is just out at the pictures, took the kids to Largs on their day off and didn’t get back in time, the weather isn’t so good and- my personal favourite from the year I was a polling clerk- big brother’s on, anything to deflect emphasis from the notion that turnouts decrease with every passing election because perhaps there’s nobody standing that’s worth the vote. Turning up and spoiling your paper or registering a NOTA vote is much harder to explain away.
