The Wardman Wire

An interesting post over at Ellee Seymour’s looking at countries where voting is compulsory, or not:

Greece’s Conservatives have retained their lead in the latest general elections. But how many people are aware that it is one of 32 countries in the world where voting is compulsory?

Even in the fire-ravaged villages of southern Greece, where many homes remain without water or electricity, prefabricated containers were used as temporary voting centres. Despite the loss of homes, voters were still expected to perform their democratic duty.

A Better Way of Voting

Personally, I’d suggest limited it to having Ballot Boxes North of the River Trent to limit voting to the sensible members of the population, and to move the capital to Berwick upon Tweed.

Berwick upon Tweed should keep the Republicans quiet, since it would allow Parliament to be held is only one of two places where the parish church was built under Cromwell.

The hoi polloi down South could have a devolved Executive meeting in St Katherine (with a K) Cree in the City of London, which inspired the design for the church in Berwick-Upon-Tweed - so they would not feel TOO patronised.

The wonderful architecture and Rose Window would raise the minds of Politicians to higher things, and all the devolved Southern MPs could be compulsorily enrolled into a silent religious order. That way they would not cause any trouble.

Recalcitrant MPs of the South-East Executive would be dealt with using the nearby stocks and whipping post that still exist at St Leonards, Shoreditch.

Since the arrangements are inspired by Cromwell, beverages would be limited to Diet Coke and water.

Diamond Geezer would be the custodian of the arrangements. Far more elegant than modern constructions.

The Perfect Voting System

For voting I would streamline all the admin by using a system proposed by the author Isaac Asimov more than 30 years ago.

Statistics would be so advanced that the determination is not by a crude mass sample - as in a traditional vote.

Rather polling allows the balanced representation of the entire country by choosing a correct single voter who can represent everyone fairly, and make the determination.

No mess. No waste. No administration. No Scottish count cockups. And 168,000 fewer Civil Servants.

Sorted.

But I don’t suppose that it will happen.

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