@j_uk643 wrote:
I'm sure that were people not to vote in significant numbers consistently, it would force some confrontation of our own system, and would represent a democratic choice of rejection
Isn't that exactly what's happened in local elections, turnout is often down to the the low 20%s and I think that figure is 20ish % of those registered so is even less as a % of the eligible electorate.
I remarked, in my local after one election, that if I bought everyone there a pint I could have won hands-down and become a councillor. Someone replied that I wouldn't as most of those there didn't bother to register.
To vote for none of the candidates is a a valid choice but falling turnout at all elections hasn't yet forced any confrontation within the system because although the politicians wring their hands and bemoan "voter apathy" the situation suits them.
In reality I think it demonstrates "voter disenchantment and disgust " with the system as it is and the referendum result was as much a vote against the system and the people who run it as anything else.
