Our Voice - Our Vote

Our VOICE is our VOTE!

When we DO NOT VOTE, we are  SILENCING OURSELVES. The POWERS THAT BE, take this opportunity to say that WE DO NOT CARE. The POWERS THAT BE generalize by saying that the CITIZENS THAT DO NOT VOTE will go along with whatever the WINNER of the Election decides. THIS IS HOW CORRUPT OUR SYSTEM IS! The POWERS THAT BE do not see or hear that the CITIZENS THAT DO NOT VOTE, have NOTHING TO VOTE FOR or that THEIR VOTE WILL NOT BE HEARD.

I too have been caught up in this process of NOT VOTING. It is difficult to go out and VOTE, when you having NOTHING TO VOTE FOR, and you see that YOUR VOTE IS NOT HEARD. WHY BOTHER? However, when we DO NOT VOTE we are actually perpetuating the current CORRUPT SYSTEM. In our current system there is a statistic called the POPULAR VOTE and it only includes the actual VOTES CAST. When we have a large number of CITIZENS NOT VOTING it CORRUPTS the statistics. As an example in the 2011 Federal Election the Conservatives won just over 39% of the Popular Vote, but only 62% of VOTERS ACTUALLY VOTED. So this 39% of 62% is misleading, the percentage of support would be much lower than 39% of the ELIGIBLE VOTERS, probably less than 30%.

Our SYSTEM only counts the VOTES CAST. When one goes into a VOTING STATION to cast their VOTE, your name is scratched off the VOTER LIST, in order to record the number of VOTES CAST. The number of VOTES RECEIVED BY THE DIFFERENT CANDIDATES must equal the TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES CAST. This actually NEVER BALANCES, as there is another category to COUNT - "SPOILED BALLOT". The POPULAR VOTE equals the VOTES received by ALL CANDIDATES plus the SPOILED BALLOTS.

Spoiled Ballots:

When one SPOILS one's BALLOT, it is saying "None of the Above" and it is expressing one's VOICE. If the CITIZENS that DO NOT VOTE actually VOTED AND SPOILED THEIR BALLOT, would be saying a lot!  It would be very feasible for the "Spoiled Ballot" statistic to reach 20% of the Popular Vote and would be HEADLINES.Traditionally the SPOILED BALLOTS is around 1% of the Popular Vote.

This process of deliberately SPOILING ONE'S BALLOT would be difficult, NOT TO BE HEARD, when in such high numbers! It would greatly lower the POPULAR VOTE that the CANDIDATES WILL RECEIVE and to give a more accurate measure of the support for the CANDIDATES.

We need to MAKE OUR VOICE HEARD and this means we need to exercise our RIGHT TO VOTE! This RIGHT TO VOTE, means the RIGHT TO SPOIL ONE'S BALLOT when necessary.