[Closed] Who keeps their vote secret?

go read the are you voting threads, there is some hatred that is burning inside people that won't go away, I wouldn't admit to voting certain ways around some people. It also means that you can't intimidate people into voting certain ways, what you do in the vote is up to you.

Spot on Mike.

I may or I may not or I may lie. Depends on how I feel and the response I want to provoke.

Who keeps their vote secret?

I don't keep them secret as I don't like the mega structure of the ZM bureaucratic EU.

Small is beautiful and not monster mega structure.

The larger you are the more control and the more control you kill yourself.

Not secret, but I don't broadcast it either, often because I have not yet made my mind up... Also an element of Rubber Buccaneers...

Depends on how I feel and the response I want to provoke.

I don't tell exit pollsters but it's pretty much known among my family/friends

IHN - Member
I don't really understand why some people are determined to keep it secret

FWIW, I find the way people attack political leanings they do not like, understand or even bother to research grossly anti-democratic and, at times bordering on totalitarian. IMHO we all have a democratic responsibility [i]to[/i] vote and a right to express our vote as we see fit. Other people have a right to express opinion or give advice, but they do not have the right to tell people what to do or condemn them for voting as they see fit.

My wife knows, not sure it's of interest or relevance to anyone else.

I think a reasonable number of people know who I voted for, but I'm not particularly proud of the fact so I'm not yelling about it. It's more important who I haven't voted for.

Nope, never would and prefer not to know how others have voted. It makes you pigeonhole people or try and coerce them into your world view.

Good story of a man and wife in my partners shop. Man proclaims to everyone that he and his wife are SNP supporters (not relevant to the story) makes a big song and dance about it and tries to persuade everyone in earshot. Man leaves, wife pops back in, apologises and then says she has spent her life voting the opposite of him because he was such a pushy get

While around town today I looked at the crowds of people and wondered which of them had already voted to impose further misery on their poorer fellow citizens.

THM has very successfully managed to keep it a secret that he's voting Tory.

I keep my vote a secret, i hate discussing polotics with people and try to stay out of conversations involving polotics.

People are so narrow minded when it comes to polotics and seem to be unwilling to admitting that there vote has flaws which ever way you vote.

I'd rather just not talk to people about something that i keep an Intrest in purley to vote.

I voted a different way to the way i usually would today. and not due to westminster but due to the politicion in the area i live being the only person on the ballot paper who has actully done anything for our are in the last 4 years.

My vote's not a secret.

Voted Green because it's the only party I don't totally despise…

Unless you voted Farage - in which case shame on you! - I don't see what's the issue.

Voting for the first time ever. Green Party. For the same reason as camo16.

I Cant remember being asked.

I think my Young Conservative mug from the 80s is a give away though.

I was surprised at how aggressive an SNP supporter became though when I said who I voted for. Especially as he was so uneducated - generally and also on the subject of politics and just used the words independence and Hollyrood at lot. I think that's what he said, he had one of those stupid accents Scotch people insist on using and was probably drunk.

I can never remember. I live in a v safe tory seat that would vote in a pig if you stuck a blue rosette on it, so whichever way my political leanings are makes no difference. Hence I vote for one of the little guys, the independents, to say thanks for taking part and here's hoping you don't lose your deposit. If I lived somewhere else or the political mood had changed I might take it a bit more seriously.

Me, no one will know who I vote for. I still have the old view of never talking politics or money

he had one of those stupid accents Scotch people insist on using and was probably drunk.

I can't imagine anyone being riled by you. You sound positively charming and not the sort of person who would say something purely to provoke a reaction.

Nobody knows who I vote for, nor ever will. I don't discuss politics, that only leads to things getting heated.
Plus, it's nobody else's damned business.

After that vote in September I saw this little wonder on Facebook.

Good mind to put a match to 10 Downing Street aka downsyndrome street.if I hear or see a no voter the day il split ya ejit brains ****ed us il be deleting a few no voters from my Facebook broken brains Am Scottish 100% would back my country good or bad. Shame on you no voters

I don't see this election being quite so emotive, but there's a distinct failure to respect those that disagree in matters of politics on SNS's

[quote=ernie_lynch ]THM has very successfully managed to keep it a secret that he's voting Tory.

I thought he was considering not voting Labour instead?

I may or I may not or I may lie

I always lie to all but one that phone me up asking if they can count on my vote.

I always lie if there's an exit poll person.

I often/usually lie even to friends. Or at least not let on the exact way I voted. They may have their suspicions. One or two may be pretty certain, but those are usually active members of a political party.

My vote was cast for me by my proxy who just happens to be a member of the local constituency party. And he better not have defected like the MP did for the constituency I call home.

I will happily say who I did not vote for (after 22:00 BST).

i wish everyone would/could -the more we do the more likely the missing 30-odd percent of non-voters will actually go out and vote.
According to the two christmas-voting turkeys amongst my colleagues, it is hard admitting to being a conservative In childrens mental health services though. As i imagine it would be if you are in the forces and vote green or have some similar politics/work ethics dissonance.

would you say who you voted for if you were asked?

No.
And nor am I interested in who anyone else does for.

Why?
Because people judge you based on it, and if they don't agree with you they'll go on and on about it, trying to tell you you're wrong...
And there's more to life than politics. 🙂

two christmas-voting turkeys

Maybe they vote on the basis of the wellbeing of society rather just their own selfish agenda.

dp, one for each voter

mefty - Member
two christmas-voting turkeys
Maybe they vote on the basis of the wellbeing of society rather just their own selfish agenda.

I am sure my naval commander riding buddy considers a green vote to be bad for national security, and he has a great deal of professional experience to base this on. He might even consider it his duty as an officer to remind me of this. Frequently. And were I in the forces I might therefore also be a christmas-voting turkey. On the same basis the conservatives i work with have a tough time justifying their politics and dicussing this with their colleagues in the face of the evidence of a widening povery gap and the mess that the health and social care act is making that they as professionals see in their day-to-day practice.

Mefty is your vote secret? And is your workplace a barrier to talking about it, or is ut easier because your politics match your colleagues an peers?

I am sure my naval commander riding buddy considers a green vote to be bad for national security, and he has a great deal of professional experience to base this on.

To be honest he is buggered whoever gets in power.

Don't have colleagues, used to work in international finance where you get a real mix of views mainly because you are working with lots of nationalities, my co head was a labour supporter and either I am useless or it didn't hold him back because he was promoted above me. I imagine my Tory supporting Scottish State School Art Teacher may have had a different experience.

To be honest he is buggered whoever gets in power.

Well I'm sure they manage the best they can on those long days out at sea.

. I imagine my Tory supporting Scottish State School Art Teacher may have had a different experience.

Eeek. As i recall my dad (state school teacher) was considered a bit of an outsider with his sdp window sticker, but that is a whole different level of staffroom tension!

Actually my staffroom is chiefly split between labour and greens, with the labour voters mostly in marginals apologising for voting the conservative incumbents out and not the most left-leaning party in. The stereotype of sandal-wearing handwringers agonising over their betrayal of their socialist roots is a not entirely inaccurate description of the last time we discussed this together. 😀 Easy for me as i live in a 14000-majority-safe constituency so i might as well vote for 'hopes not fears' (mandela) and so no need for apologising about tactical voting/compromise.

Well I'm sure they make the best they can on those long days out at sea.

Depends who asks. No one has asked yet.

Seemed busy when I went at about 6pm. Was a queue when I left.

The Teacher in my post is my Father in law for clarity not my teacher.

Well I'm sure they make the best they can on those long days out at sea.

It's not the days that are long...

[FWIW, I find the way people attack political leanings they do not like, understand or even bother to research grossly anti-democratic and, at times bordering on totalitarian. IMHO we all have a democratic responsibility to vote and a right to express our vote as we see fit. Other people have a right to express opinion or give advice, but they do not have the right to tell people what to do or condemn them for voting as they see fit

People should have the balls to defend their opinions and people are allowed to criticise other's opinions. To suggest otherwise is 'totalitarian'.