To be honest, I don't see how this topic's question has anything to do with feminism.

Incidentally, I thought of this question in relation to one other thought I have had.

Pretend you are a legislator at some level of government. A bill is brought to a vote and you haven't had a chance to read the bill before voting on it. How do you vote in this instance?

Interestingly, while I would likely leave the referendum question blank, if I were in the legislature, I would actually vote "no" on the bill.

They both don't deal in facts or logic. There is nothing wrong with going to a polling booth with a single issue or candidate on your mind but if you are checking the boxes for things you are uneducated on you are a moron.

Most politicians in Western legislatures probably don't have a clue anyway what they're voting on, they're just following the party line.

If I seem overly aggressive or hostile, it's because I find the original question not only incredibly stupid, but dangerous. The issues we vote on have long term effects and it's important to do at least a bit of research to know wtf you are checking.

Seems just like a sort of silly "what if" question to me, along the lines of "Would you rather fight 1 horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?"
Mind you, it isn't a very GOOD one, but it doesn't seem all that harmful unless you're doing some serious extrapolation or assuming that OP intends to use this to lead into a political argument.

With no information and no time to consider the facts or read the information on the topic, you should probably always vote No.

The horse-sized duck can fly, though. Assuming it's a fight in which you have no weapons, that immediately puts you at a major disadvantage if the duck knows what it's doing.

Ducks are evil though.

Warning... you will never look at ducks the same again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k01DIVDJlY

Now imagine a horse sized duck.

Just... no.

If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck... yep, must be Donald Truck.

i didn't want to watch the video right now, but it is about how the ducks have gang rape parties every now and then? I saw something like that in some animal document on TV years ago and yeah I never looked at ducks the same way anymore.

A few years ago I think I saw a feminist duck though. I was throwing some bread crumbs to ducks, and one female duck was veeery hostile to all the other ducks, at least the male ones. Maybe it was partly because she just wanted to secure as many bed crumbs as possible to herself, but really, she was attacking any other duck (which happened to be male ducks I think) that got any closer to her or the bread crumbs.

It was kinda annoying so I specifically started throwing the bread crumbs to other directions so other ducks could get them, but she definitely seemed like a strong female character who takes no shit from anybody, even male ducks. She didn't try to attack me though, realizing I was the source of the bread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrIrXkLlSG0

I would write

'Kill those, who made this incoherent referendum'

on the referendum and vote for that option.

I would vote NO. Usually, referendum questions are formed in such a way, that the only sane, real, beneficial answer, is to say no to something, decline and RESIST!

Our referendum was Yes or No, to "Should we agree to European Union terms" (mostly the economic ones) at the time. 64% was No. Anyway, they turned it to yes and they even brought heavier terms, to the ones they supposedly asked us on. Traitor leftists that they are.

Next referendum(s) i want to see, are: "Do you want to remain in Euro currency"? And: "Do you want to be a member of Eurofarce, EUSSR, European Union"?

Needless to say, i would vote NO, again. Patriotic duty, clean hands and clean consciousness, is all i am about. Enough with foreign pimps and cannibalistic invaders from nowhere, forgotten in their own Medieval times and unleashing those on us, as well.

Yeah, I would probably be ranting to a poor innocent polling assessor, and then try to convince people in the waiting line behind me that they shouldn't participate in an invalid vote.

Answers to a silly or unexistent question can have a huge impact. I'm still steaming over a crooked poll our previous mayor had a few years ago...

"We want to create a new paved marketplace on the town square, but that project means we will have to cut down the 100+ years old trees and the little park that exist there. What should we do :
a - cut down and pave all the trees and all the park
b - cut down and pave 1/2 of the trees
c - cut down and pave 1/4 of the trees and 1/2 of the park

You'll notice there was no possible answer saying that the trees and the park should be left alone...

Approx 1/10 of the town population answered the "referendum", and most of them chose the last option, with comments like "if we really, really, REALLY need to do that silly project, then I prefer the one that will have the least amount of trees cut down"

The mayor then proceeded to announce that his project of cutting down 1/4 of the trees of the town plaza had recieved an overwhelming approval from the population, with "over 90% of the voters saying yes to option c"...

God am I thankful we got rid of his crooked ass at the next local election!

Another "less local" example was for a constitutional referendum : A few years ago, a national referendum asked if we wanted the presidential election to be held every 5 years (instead of 7 years, as was done before.)
Most people chose 5 years, because a shorter duration meant a president who would have to listen to the population, right?

Wrong. The end result was to allow presidential election to happen just 1 month before legislative election (also held every 5 years), meaning that now, the assembly (our congress) is always dominated by the president's yes men (since the 2 elections are so close, people will vote for the same party on both). So the main countercheck against presidential abuse in our constitution has been neutralised by a "simple calendar change"


So nope, I certainly won't vote on a referendum I don't understand. It's dangerous.

I'm definitely a heartless monster, then. I do not want to get in a fight with a horse sized duck, but I'm generally not afraid of anything I can punt, and horses are pretty fragile when you get past their (normal) size.