Who is voting tomorrow / Abstaining / spoiling ballots?

[Mr Gus]

ps, the 2 for a quid, full size hag das is like "fizzy sherbert" ..smattered with tiny chunks of pineapple, ...we will beback tomorrow for another 4 I imagine, heron / bm foods.

[marshman]

Ah so too much publicity in the wrong places

[Tinbum]

I have no problem at all to id to vote, plenty of warnings. I'd rather that, than someone vote who shouldn't even be able to vote.

I was the 14th person to vote at our polling station in the early afternoon. They were hoping to make it to 20 by close of play!

Did you have to queue for long?

To get out yes, as I think they were that bored we ended up chatting!!

It's the same people running the polling station every election and has been for years so you do get to know them.

It's quite interesting, this time we saw their new equipment. (A plastic mirror and a cardboard screen).

[ecogeorge]

Wrongly so i admit, but this is the first time ever i've not bothered to vote. No leaflets though letterbox ( i live in a small town ) no green party candidates , just the usual corrupt mainstream.......... went to allotment instead........
George

[Mr Gus]

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ ... fraud-data

A quick read..

[nowty]

We did our duty and voted, always do.

SWMBO is from Brazil where there was military rule before 1984 and you had no right to vote. Since democracy, she has always needed iD to vote and if you don't vote, you cant claim benefit, or you cant apply for government jobs, etc. She said "about time", today when we needed to take iD.

Funny thing is she is used to electronic voting and cannot believe we still use a pencil. This thread then made me ask her about spoiling votes with an electronic system. It turns out that you can spoil your vote with their electronic system by timing out without making a selection and then your not disadvantaged as your still counted as turning up to vote. Also on voting day, everything non essential closes like covid times so you have little excuse not to vote.

[Mr Gus]

How do they record your disgust at the twonks if you can only let it time out? (it's nice scrawling emotively on a voting slip, or physically ripping ot up ..very cathartic)

[nowty]

How do they record your disgust at the twonks if you can only let it time out? (it's nice scrawling emotively on a voting slip, or physically ripping ot up ..very cathartic)

Their system still does add up the "timed out" spoiled votes, but yes you cannot type an expletive.

[dan_b]

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-04/wid ... enied-vote


Hmm

[dan_b]

Electoral commission reckons at least 14,000 people were turned away and denied a vote at the local elections due to not having the correct ID

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... hdog-finds