On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:25:51 +0000, Fredxx wrote:

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The Scottish vote a while ago required a specific percentage of the
electorate to vote for independence. In other words there was no
distinction between a stay vote or no vote at all, therefore those
staying in the UK didn't bother to vote.

As it should be. There should be no requirement to vote for what you
already have, the default, the status quo. The concept is stupid and
pointless.

Hands up who would like an ice cream? counts hands

WTF would you *then* ask:

"Hands up who doesn't want an ice cream" counts hands
and then
"Hands up who doesn't care or can't answer for some reason?" counts
hands

The ONLY count that matters to the question is now many people WANT
ice creams.

If the intention is that everone *will* be forced to have an ice cream
if the vote went that way, I'd hope that would only be done when at
least 2/3rds voted for it.


A result was those voting for independence won with a landslide
majority, but still lost the vote.

Ok.

That isn't democracy.

IYHO I'm guessing.

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Cheers, T i m