| Your vote is important
Not voting is still a choice – and it speaks in the wrong direction
Many people who don’t vote believe their absence sends a message. It doesn’t. Silence is consent. Here’s why casting your vote — even an imperfect one — is the only way to be heard.
~ 50%
Average voter turnout across Isle of Man constituencies. Half the electorate is silent — not because they don’t care, but because many believe their vote makes no difference. This campaign exists to change that belief.
The organ donor principle
Opting out requires an action. So does your vote.
The electoral process mirrors the organ donor system — where you are presumed to consent unless you actively say otherwise. If you do not vote, you are not opting out. You are tacitly agreeing to those elected by others.
Remaining silent is agreeing. Your absence helps no one except the candidates you most want to keep out.
Disagree with every candidate?
Spoil your ballot — but vote.
If you do not agree with any of the candidates, you must still vote – but mark your ballot paper with “I do not agree” or “none of the above”. This registers your vote and records your dissent on the official count.
Consider: roughly 50% of eligible voters currently stay home. If only half of those spoiled their ballots instead, that total would exceed the vote received by any single candidate — and that would be impossible to ignore.
Go to the polling station
Even if you plan to spoil your ballot, turning up counts. Your presence is recorded.
Mark your ballot deliberately
Write “None of the above” clearly. A spoiled vote is an official, counted vote of no confidence.
Encourage others
If 25% of non-voters spoiled their ballot, it would dwarf every candidate’s total. Numbers bring change.
We have the power
Question your candidates. Demand the change you need.
If you want change, you cannot keep doing the same thing again and again. We must cause change ourselves — and we do this by electing candidates who support amendments to the Referendum Act 1979.
It is imperative that as many people vote as possible, even if you disagree with your candidate, so that we escape this constant cycle. Nothing else will change unless the electorate itself brings that change.
The last 30 years have shown that the current system is dysfunctional and serves only itself. The power to break that cycle lies with you.
