In a free society it is the right and the freedom of the individual to vote or not as they see fit.
However, here in Northern Ireland the chief electoral officer has the legislative power to prosecute people who do not register to vote.
In a so called democracy the requirement to register to vote should not be made an offence but a freedom that you chose to take up or not!
The act of prosecuting an individual for not registering to vote is an abuse of the right of the individual to express their individual freedom. Freedoms that over hundreds of years have been hard fought for and much blood has been spilt for these rights and freedoms.
One of the last freedoms and acts we have left is the consensus decision to take part or not in the electoral process.
If by not registering to vote and therefore not take part in the voting process and this freedom and consensus decision is to be criminalised then the state and government is forgetting who they work for!!!
For me the most disturbing factor here is that the chief electoral officer can use all the mechanisms of the state to track you down and take you to court.
Now you tell me if this is not the Orwellian, Big Brother state that we were all warned about in 1984!!!
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/article3734161.ece
However, here in Northern Ireland the chief electoral officer has the legislative power to prosecute people who do not register to vote.
In a so called democracy the requirement to register to vote should not be made an offence but a freedom that you chose to take up or not!
The act of prosecuting an individual for not registering to vote is an abuse of the right of the individual to express their individual freedom. Freedoms that over hundreds of years have been hard fought for and much blood has been spilt for these rights and freedoms.
One of the last freedoms and acts we have left is the consensus decision to take part or not in the electoral process.
If by not registering to vote and therefore not take part in the voting process and this freedom and consensus decision is to be criminalised then the state and government is forgetting who they work for!!!
For me the most disturbing factor here is that the chief electoral officer can use all the mechanisms of the state to track you down and take you to court.
Now you tell me if this is not the Orwellian, Big Brother state that we were all warned about in 1984!!!
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/article3734161.ece
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