Amid murmurs that youths should abstain from voting or spoil their votes in the upcoming general election, panellists at two separate forums have urged them to do something about it instead.

At a forum titled "Dear Political Dinosaurs, Why You Still Around?" in Petaling Jaya on Saturday, activist and former lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri (photo) said she respects such decisions but stressed that there needs to be a conversation to find a way out of the feeling of disillusionment.

She said that voting is not the only way to have a voice or to effect change, and believing otherwise would degrade a person’s humanity down to the act of voting...