Voting is a pretty personal thing, and I’m not as intrigued by how you may have voted on electoral reform as I am in whether you actually went and voted?
Quite a lot of people have already written about the two campaigns, and whether or not they’ve been effective – in my opinion, they’ve both been pretty rubbish at getting the points and information across in a clear way that I can not only understand, but actually share with other people.
I’m a big believer in voting, not least for the belief that if I don’t try and make my vote/voice heard, then I don’t have the right to complain about whichever party make it into power, for example. And yet after all the money spent on campaigns, and all the debating, I found it incredibly hard to head out to the polling station. I’d been in some great meetings in London all day, finally got in around 7pm, and really just wanted to collapse on the sofa with some snacks…
It wasn’t the campaigns which got me out and voting, and my desire to make my voice heard was somewhat subdued and drowned out by my desire to watch TV for a bit.
What got me out of the house was the quick and simple question ‘Are you voting’ sent by a friend.
So did you vote? And what motivated you to head to a polling station?
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