IT IS VOTING TIME

It is voting time

Laura Mariani

The Alchemist goes to vote

Well, it is voting time. Today is D-Day, the day when Great Britain will decide its destiny with remaining or exiting the European Union. The love-hate-in-out relationship has been a longstanding debate coming to its natural conclusion. A referendum for British citizens to decide one way or another finally. I will not try to persuade anyone how to vote. My belief is personal freedom of choice. I understand that I might wake up tomorrow morning and not like the result, but that is a democracy, the majority of people are eligible to vote to decide. I would mind though if the majority of only the people that bothered to turn up made such an important decision. We sometimes forget how important voting is and how many struggles people have gone through for centuries. And in some countries still do now, for this basic fundamental right. The universal vote has not been in place that long in the UK.

 

Three parliamentary reform Acts introduced in 1832, 1867 and 1884 helped move things forward. As a result, the electorate increased from approximately 366,000 in England and Wales in 1831 to slightly fewer than 8 million in 1885. However, in early-19th-century Britain, still very few people had the right to vote.
Parliamentary seats were also redistributed to give larger towns and cities greater weight. The Ballot Act of 1872, which introduced secret ballots, made it far more difficult for voters to be bribed or intimidated.
Universal suffrage, including voting rights for women (though not for those under 30), did not arrive in Britain until February 1918.
Whatever your views, IN or OUT, do not forget to vote if you are eligible. If you don't like the result tomorrow morning, think: your vote could have made a difference.

GO AND VOTE.

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