Campaign to show voting can make a difference

From: Arthur Marson, Mountjoy Road, Huddersfield.

FURTHER to the article by Mark Stuart with regard to trust in MPs (Yorkshire Post, December 30), in particular his call for compulsory voting, while this may be a forlorn hope, it could be the nudge needed by the media to start a campaign to keep telling voters that their vote could change the face of politics.

As I have said before, the non-voters and the disillusioned could see the election of a new brand of representative, especially in local elections, where the turnout is particularly low.

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Voters should be urged on at least a weekly basis up to next year’s elections in May that their vote for a candidate who has not been elected before could result in a lot of new faces being on show.

Worldwide, as the financial situation shows, the present people have been tried and found wanting, and none of them appears to be prepared to make the pay cuts at the top, where they are needed, if the deficit is to be reduced.

We certainly need some new ground rules with regard to voting and the way a referendum is run. Too many candidates are elected by a small percentage of the voters, as are the results of a referendum. The present system suits the people in power because too many of them continue to be re-elected under it.

From: Tom Rees, Northallerton.

SURELY compulsory voting has to be the answer when more young people use Facebook than register to vote? If this trend is not checked, then turnout will become even lower in future – and election outcomes even more farcical.