Voting

So this year was the first year i could vote in the Scottish General Election, it's quite an important year for these elections too.
But anyhoo what i want to discuss is the whole surroundings of voting. People always complain about the government & you ask them "who did you vote for?", usually they say "oh i didn't vote". I think why most people don't vote is cause they are too dam lazy.
Anyaway's i want to know your thought's on voting.

 

I don't like the fact that I, a fifteen-year-old boy doesn't have the right to vote in the United States, unlike my brother who's three years older.

 

Well voting in america has really gone to hell, citizens feel that voting does not do anything. And that their vote does not matter, we are actually a very policitally weak voting population. If I remember my statistics correctly, something like 51% of the voting population doesn't vote at all. People feel that their vote does not matter at all or they just do not pay attention to politics in general, which I find very unfourtunate.

But to say the least many people feel that other people who are more involved will be enough to say what is good for the country. When in fact policital elites are what is in control. Government has taken a back seat by people who think that they do nothing, but it is those peoples ignorance that cause so much grief, they are just to lazy to go and punch a ticket.

 

I agree. In a democracy where you elect your own leader, the government is only as weak as its people. If we get a bad leader, it's because we elected him. And if you don't vote, you can't complain about the government at all because you did nothing to change it.

Those are my views, anyway... I don't even think 18 year olds should be able to vote. Maybe.. 25+.

 

Hmm. I think that people should be able to vote from the age of 18, but It has to be better system. Voting isn't doing much, as SquishyZ3ro said.

 

I can now vote this year also. But I decided not to vote. For one, I never got the slip and I couldn't be bothered to get one. And also where I live is a very Conservative area, and I would vote Conservative anyway.

 

Yea right I was estatic to vote when i turned 18, I would hate to have to wait longer.

 

Americans do vote! For American Idol that is. Other than that we are lazy idiots who care more about television than the people who CONTROL THEIR LIVES. If I didn't already let it on I don't care which way you vote I just want there to be votes at all it makes things fair for us. Without voting where are we?

 

You may have been ecstatic when you could vote at 18, but most people -really- need to wait until they're 25. Most college students don't even watch the news, they just use what they hear from their friends and what they see on The Daily Show with John Stuart(sp?) and The Colbert Report...

 

I would rather have people voting on what they see on those shows than randomly going in but the fact of the matter is that in the age range of 18-24 we make up 14.4% of the voting age population, and only 42% of us vote. That is a depressingly sad number.

 

well....i don't really vote becuz my vote doesn't really matter. especially for presidential elections, our votes don't actually elect the president. the electoral college elects the president. so in my view, it's just a waste of time.