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Title: polling station
Post by: Steve B on 02 May 2013, 09:59:51
Just been there...why do you get someone stood outside from one of the main parties.Come up to you and say.Can i take your register number please  :-\ Is it so they can work out what percentage voted .
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Terbs on 02 May 2013, 10:08:17
Just been up to the Community Centre to do the wages, and its being used as a polling station......absolutely dead as a dodo up there. No-one stood outside. Officials are sat reading or chatting :y

Ooops...just realized..political topic...no further comment ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 02 May 2013, 10:12:24
Is it bad of me that I am not going to vote... :-[
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: cleggy on 02 May 2013, 10:23:27
Is it bad of me that I am not going to vote... :-[

Careful Hush Puppy Ken might come knocking at your door  :D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: taitinson on 02 May 2013, 13:48:18
Is it bad of me that I am not going to vote... :-[

No need to feel bad. I've never voted and i'm 43  :)
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Varche on 02 May 2013, 14:24:42
Just been there...why do you get someone stood outside from one of the main parties.Come up to you and say.Can i take your register number please  :-\ Is it so they can work out what percentage voted .

I think it is so they can come round your house and as you haven't voted yet, offer you a lift and/or persuade you to vote for them. Particularly useful in a marginal constituency.
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 May 2013, 14:31:58
On the way in I politely decline to comment. Woe betide anyone who asks a second time on the way out ::)

They find out who voted soon enough when the ballots are counted...
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: cleggy on 02 May 2013, 15:14:57
Voted last month by post :y

UKIP to get massive support, LimpDems to get a thrashing, Conmen to lose 400+ seats, Liebore to show increased support especially in the north, are my predictions
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Entwood on 02 May 2013, 15:24:05
My local elections UKIP and Labour both chickened out .. not a candidate put up by either party .. choices are Conservative or Lib Dems .. not even an independent to consider !!
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: cleggy on 02 May 2013, 15:33:21
My local elections UKIP and Labour both chickened out .. not a candidate put up by either party .. choices are Conservative or Lib Dems .. not even an independent to consider !!

Perhaps you should have stood :y
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 02 May 2013, 16:19:46
Is it bad of me that I am not going to vote... :-[

No need to feel bad. I've never voted and i'm 43  :)
same here, waste of petrol imo after all it's only one vote ;D
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: redelitev6 on 02 May 2013, 16:34:40
 ??? What elections ? not getting one here in Newcastle
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Webby the Bear on 02 May 2013, 18:03:25
Blues for me.

Will be interested to see the UKIP results.
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 02 May 2013, 18:27:12
No comment from me :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 02 May 2013, 18:29:17
No voting in Swindon.....so i dont have to bother to go....
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Steve B on 02 May 2013, 18:29:23
3 choices here... con lib or lab  :y could not decide so i picked them all  :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: scimmy_man on 03 May 2013, 21:59:55
we ran a polling station yesterday,

for the amount of people who voted I recon we cost £12 a vote, I could have nipped round and collected more in an hour, never mind the 7am to 10pm we were there for,

the tellers are trying to see if all the people who said they would vote for their party have turned out, they collect old folk and bring them to vote, ;D
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Vamps on 04 May 2013, 00:46:18
Voted by post a few days ago, only 2 choices though, so I voted for the right one....... :y :y

Not sure how anyone who does not vote can comment on our current situation, 'put up or shut up' is how I was brought up, in any situation....... :D :D
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: omega3000 on 04 May 2013, 07:15:07
Always vote by post nowadays , so much easier but its a pity that quite a few today dont even bother but still moan about the current situation  ::) I think it should be law to make everyone vote  :)
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: ronnyd on 04 May 2013, 20:16:18
My local elections UKIP and Labour both chickened out .. not a candidate put up by either party .. choices are Conservative or Lib Dems .. not even an independent to consider !!
Blimey, what a s--t choice. :-[
Title: Re: polling station
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 05 May 2013, 12:04:44
Always vote by post nowadays , so much easier but its a pity that quite a few today dont even bother but still moan about the current situation  ::) I think it should be law to make everyone vote  :)

Compare and contrast with the recent General Election in Malaysia where there was an estimated 80% turnout!  ::)