please empty your brain below
It was pretty quiet out in St Albans at 7:30 yesterday morning.

But blimey, the result!

Andrew | 08.05.15 - 8:54 a.m. | #

When I was asked to confirm my name and address, I said it was on the form I had just given over. Not amused.

Running Correspondent | 08.05.15 - 9:43 a.m. | #

The clerk apologised for having to ask me to confirm my name and address when it was on the polling card I'd just given her, but they had been told they had to do it. There was obviously a specific edict given out, although it has always been technically required.

RobT | 08.05.15 - 10:02 a.m. | #

What were all those names and addresses in red on the electoral list? *If* those are all the postal/proxy voters in the ward, it's no wonder fraud is rife in this borough. Are all these people so infirm they can't walk to a polling station?

Kim | 08.05.15 - 10:54 a.m. | #

Kim, I registered for a postal vote not because I can't walk at all but because I can't walk very far and the location they've chosen in my area as a polling station has no parking at all in the vicinity

Caroline | 08.05.15 - 11:57 a.m. | #

Here in the colonies, where we carry democracy to the extreme and have TWO houses to elect, and where we have preferential voting and proportional representation some of the voting papers are the size of table-runners. I always find an excuse to postal vote and sit with a glass of wine, in comfort, while I do.

Antipodean | 08.05.15 - 1:01 p.m. | #

Kim. Some people will be away from home on polling day and therefore need a postal vote.
The issue is not that postal voting is wrong, it's that the existing process is so poorly policed it is too easy to abuse.

IslandDweller | 08.05.15 - 2:10 p.m. | #

Time perhaps to have voting done on the "interweb" then...?

E | 08.05.15 - 3:37 p.m. | #

One of the benefits of voting on the way home from work is that you get to see a more complete picture of who else has voted. Pretty low turnout from my neighborhood, though it is a safe Labour seat which may be why.

s | 08.05.15 - 4:04 p.m. | #

You do not have to have a reason for having a postal vote. I chose one because I might be away on polling day. And yes there have been malpractices connected with postal votes, but there have also been malpractices connected with votes in person, and who is to say which is worse or more numerous?

Malcolm | 09.05.15 - 8:45 a.m. | #











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