Abstaining
Yesterday, we held our second election in two months, and finally, we have an elected government. Hopefully, we won't have another election until the end of this government's four-year term. But what made me write about this? In yesterday's election, I saw that only 52% of eligible Greeks chose to vote, while the remaining 48% abstained. At the same time, during this entire pre-election period, almost everyone had an opinion about how the country should be governed, how the economy is struggling, which politicians are inadequate, which party should win, etc.
However, this percentage implies that only one out of every two people actually cast their vote, despite having opinions. How is it that people have opinions during discussions but abstain when the time comes to express those opinions?How detrimental is abstention?Abstention results in poor representation because when only half of the people vote, that half gets to choose who represents the other half. This means that the unrepresented group of people may feel anger towards the political system.Marginal impacts groups of people with their own agendas can exert influence in areas and elections with high abstention rates.
Policy consequences: Abstaining can influence policy outcomes. Elected officials pay attention to voter turnout patterns and are more likely to prioritize issues that matter to active and engaged voters. When certain groups abstain from voting, their concerns may receive less attention, leading to potential policy biases.I never understand the reason behind people who don't want to vote and, at the same time, complain about the elected officials!
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what is the utiliy of a vote if 50% of ppl don 't vote
If the winner have 60% of vote we can estimate only only 30% of ppl want him as president....
yes we as people are the ones that destroy our democracy!
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absolutely
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One of the reasons why people abstain from elections even after having different opinions about who might win or who wouldn't is probably because of negligence, the paper works that comes with electoral participations or maybe the feeling that politics is a dirty game and the people who would win would eventually win, whether they vote or not.
in my country the paperwork is almost nonexistent for the voters. You just go to the electoral Center with ID they check the names and the give you ballots and envelop keep the ones you want and through the rest close the envelope and put it in the ballot pool. Now yes if someone seems to have better odd to win the only way to loose is for everyone to vote because the ones that are going to vote for him will definitely go ! Everyone that wants to vote for the winner goes to vote
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keep in mind that even if the new president runs the country successfully, he/she can't change the whole situation in just a single term of 4 years or so.
yea of course changing a country radically need a lot of time maybe more than a decade but those changes means that all the previous years the ones that ruled were incompetent!
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It's sad that so many people don't bother to vote, they're giving away their power to change things in their country. I wish we could ditch parties here in the US, all they do is cause problems..
I believe people are never going to make real changes to their government leaders they don't even want to participate in the government which is by voting for their preferred candidate.
It's sad to hear that almost half of the eligible voters are not voting but they still think that change will come. That's not how it works, at least in governments.
People need to understand that putting their feet to work by voting for who they want in power is the only key to change. All opinions and rants against the government have zero effect when we can't put that energy into voting.