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10 Questions: Claes Borgström - Ombudsman for Equality (Sweden)

posted by Salla Sorri at 10h39 GMT on Aug 29
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Why bother to vote?
I can understand why many people who are poor and out of jobs feel that it doesn’t matter whether they vote or not and that it will have no influence whatsoever on their own personal situations. It is understandable. But on the other hand voting is a way of saying that this my opinion, I want to have some influence on the development of my own life and of society, and that is one thing you can do. And if more poor people actually voted, that would have an influence, would change the world.

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