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  However you vote, postal or in person, it is your right to do so or not. Part of that democratic freedom people are fighting for.
  
  Getting people to vote is not a matter of convincing people that they should but rather that it is worth them doing so. Over the last hundred plus years the parties have convinced the electorate that it is a two horse race, where once it was Whigs or Tories now it is Red or Blue. It is up to the electorate to be more demanding of their candidates, by expecting them to represent their interests rather than the ideology of a party, and it is up to the candidates to show that there is some point in voting for them.
  
  Forcing people to vote would just prove that there is not really a choice.

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