On election day at least a third of people coming to the polling station had not received a polling card. The Didcot Herald reported a similar situation in South Oxfordshire under the headline “Inquiry into election ‘shambles’ ” . A lot of people are now getting polling cards belatedly as batches come through from the Swindon depot. Hope not too many people missed out as a result.
Polling cards not required to vote, mate, just turn up at the Polling Station and give them your name and address.
There’s only two statutory questions they can ask you and if you answer yes to the first and no to the second (provided you’re even asked them in the first place), then Bob’s your Uncle, in you go and cast your vote.
Dave, you know that, I know that, Alastair knows that, however, not everyone knows that and any possibility of people being disenfranchised is of concern. As was pointed out in the Herald, ‘Single vote hands Abingdon to Tories’. Somewhere along the line someone didn’t do the job they were supposed to do when they were supposed to do it … this is not a circumstance for complacency. You may be missing the point.
I have a friend who lives in Marcham who ‘knows that’, but some of his neighbours refused to go to vote without the polling cards, even though he strongly emphasised what Dave says.
Not just me then. I voted early morning, a note of my name
was taken at door, and address.( Check I was on the register. – I was).
I know a few people who won’t go and vote, (if ‘they’ can’t be bothered to send a card, then why should they bother to vote. (Vote has never counted anyway!!).
has my postal vote arrived with that lot?
They should subcontract the sending out of poll cards to Amazon next time. The Royal Mail prioritise their deliveries.
I have heard from a good source that the council sent the postal votes out late and that their printers didn’t send all the items out