Why the hullabaloo about another supplementary registration? #Elections2014

It is obvious Batswana are fatigued or care little about democratic elections. If they had interest why would they have to be cajoled, begged, prayed, coerced or reminded all the time to register to vote? They should know unregistered, they won’t be eligible to vote when elections arrive.


 After 10 general elections they know that one can only vote if registered! The reluctance nay, resistance to register to vote, is a loud and clear message to the effect that Batswana don’t have any truck with elections! You can take a horse to the river but you can’t make it drink. In Australia where voting is compulsory and citizens can be penalised if they don’t go to the polls, how do the authorities know whether people go into the polling booths to vote or to spoil the ballot papers?

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