Video: Make your mark in tomorrow's elections (From Lancashire Telegraph)

• "Mavrick and woolywords make vital points. At the practical level, if you fail to use your vote, you resign your right to complain about the incompetence and lack of vision of those who spend millions of your money.
  
  At the moral level, they are equally correct. Your recent ancestors won for you your right to be heard.
  
  Looking around what used to be a vibrant town it is easy to lose heart and fall prey to despair. However, failing to use your vote is not useful. Abstention merely means an easy ride for those who seek authority over others. You tell them that they may continue to treat citizens with contempt as you will not exercise the only sanction they fear - losing power.
  
  The usual suspects are on the ballot papers. They are an unappetising lot. Their record is abysmal. Your abstention tomorrow will merely confirm "them" in a belief that you can be treated with contempt.
  
  Look around the town. Are you happy with what you see ? Are you happy that your children will inherit a home town that has lost all sense of purpose and direction ? If you want change, YOU have to do something different.
  
  Make it clear that you want change, that you want competence as a minimum from your representatives. The way to do that is to adapt Darener's suggestion. Go to vote but make clear your rejection of what's on offer by writing across your ballot "None of the above." It won't get you your candidate of choice but it's a small first step in rejection of the same tired old useless candidates. It's a first shout of "We've had enough."
  
  This message is not in any way intended to be party-political."
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