Most of us are proud to “Have the Power to Vote”.
Some of us vote, some don’t.
When we do vote for a Person, or Party, we might think that the Party, or Person heeds what we are saying and will attempt to make your wishes come true.
Recent events, Covid, Ukraine, illegal immigration, might well suggest that Democracy has gone.
Do you feel like that, in your Country?
Do you think your Politician heeds what you say & works accordingly?
Do you, actually, think your vote is still worth anything?
Yes I do think.that who we vote for has an effect since if successfully elected they will go into office having a mindset more akin to our own and make decisions with that kind of leaning which may at least temper the alternative one.
Those things you mention will have had or be having a albeit probably small different approach if someone else had got the job, or due to the possible threat of getting the sack in a couple of years if they didn’t slightly change their ways to reflect the apparent overall feeling of the electorate.
No, I won’t be voting anymore - either in local or national elections. I didn’t really understand politics before, but I voted for people who I believed would make a difference…now I don’t believe a word anyone says, nothing has changed for the better and recent events have convinced me that casting my vote anywhere will not make a jot of difference. I know that sounds very pessimistic, but I think the only person who can make a difference in my world, is me. 
Of course votes count and to my mind, not to vote is dishonouring our predecessors who fought tooth & nail to get the vote, especially the women.
It depends where you live I think
Here, my vote makes no difference whatsoever. It’s a Tory safe seat and I might as well not bother
I always vote though, at least I show on the National stats, not that that means anything
Unless we get proper proportional representation it will always be hard to change things by voting
No, of course they don’t listen, unless it threatens their position
It must be about 40 years since I last voted. I would like to say there was some ideological reason for that, but I would be lying if I did. I can never be bothered, that’s the reason. I don’t remember there being any opportunity to express my wishes about what I wanted in return for my vote.
Unfortunately that seems to disappear once they are elected - they all over promise and under deliver. The days when politicians faithfully represented and spoke for those who elected them are long gone. All they care about now is their fat - mainly unearned - salaries, their second homes, and their exorbitant expences. Most of them appear to be high in ego and low in moral creatures.
Having said that - I will always vote - people suffered and died to give me that right - not to do so would be like spitting on their graves.
At least they had the intention of doing good before greed and the reality that it ain’t quite so simple kicked into place. They might have been able to only move one tiny pebble along the shore of destiny, but at least it’s one more than nothing and moved in the right direction compared to that which someone else intended to move it.
Hi
We are a democracy.
My vote is the only wayI can change things.
I will always vote.
What he said!
Without proportional representation, then no, our vote effects very little at all.
No, I don’t even know my local politicians of any party and none of them will listen to me in the sense of acting upon what I might tell them. I don’t expect that and don’t consider myself that important. I hadn’t voted for 25 years because it had largely been a distribution battle. More recently, though, I realised that it may come to the crunch in my country and possibly in Europe which is why I started voting again. And I saw results. A rising number of former non-voters with me being one of them prevented one party from rising and potentially coming to power which would have led to a completely different society of a kind I don’t want to live in.
Recent events show how important democracy of the type people in the West have benefited from is. That’s what the Ukrainians are striving for.
I’m from conservative parents, voted their way, then got to know some socialist, sympathised but couldn’t really vote for it.
Now I don’t believe in anything anymore and will vote for the party that will pay out the biggest state pension … basically 
So it depends on what you want to change, how & why.
Yes, I do think every vote counts.
In SA for example it looks as if the one term Liberal Government will be out on it’s ear (Liberal = Conservative) - Australian voters rarely turf out a government after one term but it looks like the Covid incumbency is no longer an advantage and this government has proved to be particularly ineffective.
Meanwhile in NSW…
Due to a glitch in the iVote system some recent council elections have been declared void because the difference between elected and failed councillors was less than the number of voter who could not vote. Remembering that voting is compulsory and voter turnout is nearly 100%
The New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC) applied to the Supreme Court for the results in three councils – Kempsey, Singleton and Shellharbour Ward A – to be scrapped due to this issue, and a judge agreed to void the votes on Thursday.
Voters in these councils will now head back to the polls, but the iVote system will not be in use this time around.
The Electoral Commission asked the NSW Government for $22million but were only given $2million to ensure the integrity of the system.
So yes, my vote counts and makes a difference.
I should have mentioned that in May we have a Federal Election when we have the choice between the Shit Party and Shit Lite Party.
