Sean Gabb debates with Simon Hughes, about compulsory voting

Posted on 25 June, 2008 by | 4 Comments

David Davis

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/multimedia/2008-06-24-vote-sig.mp3

I didn’t listen to it, but i can’t imagine that Sean was in favour of making ballots compulsory. The idea stinks.

About these ads
This entry was posted in Announcements, Blogroll, British Media, Education, Events, LA Papers, Liberty, News Releases, Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

4 Responses to Sean Gabb debates with Simon Hughes, about compulsory voting

  1. Patrick Vessey | 25 June, 2008 at 2:11 pm |

    Another ‘libertarian’ has a slightly different take — use IQ tests, and don’t allow thick people the vote.

    Really.

    See here:
    http://www.theprometheusinstitute.org/politics/blogarchive/94-blog/680-electoral-eugenics

    That sort of position is more what I’d expect from a Randroid, rather than a Libertarian.

  2. Otto | 25 June, 2008 at 7:02 pm |

    Rather than making voting compulsory there is a lot to be said for restricting the franchise. Here are three possibilities to consider: restricting it to British citizens, remove anyone who is longterm in receipt of benefits from the electoral roll and removing anyone working in an undesirable part of the public sector from the electoral rolls.

    Compulsory voting stinks. All many people would do is spoil their ballot papers.

    Anyway, why do they want us to vote anyway, as they just ignore our wishes once elected.

  3. Otto | 25 June, 2008 at 7:03 pm |

    Rather than making voting compulsory there is a lot to be said for restricting the franchise. Here are three possibilities to consider: restricting it to British citizens, remove anyone who is longterm in receipt of benefits from the electoral roll and removing anyone working in an undesirable part of the public sector from the electoral rolls.

    Compulsory voting stinks. All many people would do is spoil their ballot papers.

    Anyway, why do they want us to vote anyway, as they just ignore our wishes once elected.

  4. Pingback: More on compulsory voting: who actually ought to be entitled to vote? « The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s