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ORIGINAL: hot4bondage

I see what you're saying, but I don't see what good it does. And don't get me wrong, I vote every time. I just don't vote for candidates who oppose my most fundamental beliefs. Isn't it less harmful to cast an inconsequential ballot than a counter-productive ballot?

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

You have the truth of it there Bama, but when there is little to choose between two teams of liars, thieves and rogues, many people make their own choice, which is to vote informal. I think our last election had a record number of those votes.
At the moment on one side we have a smiling assassin, with no real policy except to stick it to what he regards as the lower classes.
On the other side we have a man with no real substance who wants to stick it to big business and the wealthier end of town but he has the aroma of union corruption surrounding him.
The rest ? They are just there to make up the numbers

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

LOL................I think I am leaning towards your way of thinking there Bama. The 'smiling assassin' here is all front and no substance ( like a Hollywood stage-set). He can talk the talk but when you examine that talk, you find he has actually SAID nothing.
The 'union man' comes across as dumb as dogshit but he is thought to have coerced a whole lot of money from big business which kinda 'disappeared '. The Royal commission couldn't lay a glove on him, but the smell remains all the same. Still, it goes to show he is not as dumb as he seems. If he can do that for the country, he has my vote and I don't really care if he DOES skim his 10% off the top *smile*.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: freedomdwarf1
I think every 'democratic' vote should always have a 'None of the above' option.
If that is the winner, the whole process should be scrapped and started again until a clear choice of the people is represented rather than a 'best of the worst' Hobson's choice.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

We have compulsory voting here too F.D. but if you don't like any of them, you just leave your ballot paper blank or write some obscene message on it and it's called informal ( don't ask me why *smile*) and scrapped. We have three elections due this year I think.................local ( town or city councillors), Federal ( Parliament) and Senate, ( Upper House). The voting paper is about the size of a sheet of wallpaper and you wouldn't trust any name on them to give you a straight answer to the simplest question................................I am trying to make up an obscene limerick to go on mine, or maybe I will just quote Kipling.............."I could not kill; I dared not rob and so I lied to please the mob". It seems very fitting.

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ORIGINAL: ifmaz

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If your preferred candidate does not get the nod from their respective party, would you still vote for the party? For instance, if Bernie Sanders is not the Democratic Party's candidate, would you still vote for Hillary just to be in-line with your party, would you choose a different candidate, or would you not vote?

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: satanscharmer

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ORIGINAL: ifmaz

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If your preferred candidate does not get the nod from their respective party, would you still vote for the party? For instance, if Bernie Sanders is not the Democratic Party's candidate, would you still vote for Hillary just to be in-line with your party, would you choose a different candidate, or would you not vote?

I don't vote just in-line with my party, but those I vote for tend to be within the same party. If I can't have the one I want, I'll pick the one that I side with the most out of the rest. Sometimes it does seem to be voting for the lesser of two evils, it just depends on how you look at it. If I absolutely loathed all the available candidates, I'd be more likely to do a write-in than to not vote altogether.
I do understand why some may not want to vote at all, but it's not something I can bring myself to do.

This is who I'm voting for:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4tP7ogWIA

I have lined up my second choice. I'm closer to the middle on the political spectrum and do fully look at all the options, not just the options in my party. If I didn't think Trump was such a huge douchecanoe, I'd consider him more thoroughly and thoughtfully as a second choice.

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

If democracy keeps bringing 2 candidates people don't care about to vote for, is it working?

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

The biggest impediment to trump winning would be cruz/rubio unified ticket. but that would likely be "trumped" by a trump/x ticket.