Please ensure that you vote before midday on October 12 in order to have your say in the forthcoming Tauranga City Council elections.
Only 43 per cent of voters voted at the last election; and if we continue to have such low voter turnouts potentially even more poor decisions will be made by future councils without you having any say in those decisions.I also hear people say, that by voting, my vote does not make a difference or alternatively even if I do vote they don't listen to us. But rest assured that by not voting at all you have even less say.
Please vote - if you don't please don't complain.
Mike Baker, Bethlehem.
3 comments
If I don't to vote
Posted on 27-09-2013 12:23 | By the kurgan
then I have every right to moan. If I do vote and the person I voted for does something I don't agree with then I have no right to moan because I have already pledged my support for them by voting for them.
Dont vote for the sake of voting - its stupid
Posted on 30-09-2013 12:38 | By The Tomahawk Kid
I will NEVER vote for people who say they are going to do things that I disagree with. That would be the HEIGHT OF STUPIDITY Voting for the best of 2 evils is STILL EVIL, and I refuse to encourage or give them my permission to continue. People who do this (ie vote for people just because people like Mike Baker think they should) are the CAUSE of our problems, and are no deterrent at all. I say DO NOT VOTE for UNPRINCIPLED councillors. This means they have no set of RULES upon which they base their decisions, and so therefore cannot be relied upon to be consistent in their decision making. Unfortunately for me this means that ZERO of the candidates are suitable, and so therefore I shall not vote. AND I will continue to MOAN until a candidate with PRINCIPLES that I agree with becomes available
A quote for Kurgan
Posted on 30-09-2013 15:00 | By Sam Bailey
"I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote -- who did not even leave the house on Election Day -- am in no way responsible for that these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created." George Carlin
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