Voting poll

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1560850]

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

And are you/have you voted for the same party in both? Which I won't...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

A good question, but you can't edit polls once you have posted them. I normally do so - but we haven't got local elections going on.

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Neither will I.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

Last time I had to be there at 7 to vote on my way to work.

This time I am in full student mode - still in PJs, have radio 4 on, tea mug to hand and a cat on my feet and will be wandering down in due course.

But I have been checking references in Suetonius and Cassius Dio for the last hour, so it's not as idle as all that!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I always vote in the early evening. These days it's because I don't have time before going to work, but more generally because I feel rather sentimental about it. I used to love walking to the polling station with my parents after tea: walking up to vote at half-past seven on a spring evening under the beech trees is democracy!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's not too hot today. Our polling station is a corrugated iron barn, it must be stifling for the poor election supervisor type people when the sun beats down.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

You vote, you try to choose the least bad candidate or party - and still the government gets in.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

He he.

[segh.livejournal.com]

You should have had an extra button for voting twice - I've got G's proxy. (Would have had Will's too but he didn't get in under the deadline.)

[sally_maria]

I may not have bothered to vote in the local election, if it was the only one running - but it seems silly to get to the polling station and then not take part.

Cheltenham has quite a successful local non-party political grouping on the Borough Council (People Against Bureaucracy) so they tend to get my vote - if the General Election is about electing a constituency MP rather than a Prime Minster, the local elections are even more so, IMO.

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

We don't have a People Against Bureaucracy person in Benhall. I had to vote for someone else, so I voted for different people on mine and Navyboy's ballots.

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Still haven't decided on who to vote for in the General.

I'm going to vote for the only candidate that I've met in the local. He seems like a nice boy and pretty harmless. Not the best reason for voting for him, but I don't even know how many candidates we've got standing in the local election.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

For once all my priorities have lined up. The candidate for whom I would vote in an ideal world is the most likely candidate to get the one I don't like out, is the party I generally support, seems a decent sort in herself, and is the only one who's really bothered to get my vote. She has it.

[firin.livejournal.com]

I _would_ vote, but it's a slight journey (3000+ miles) to my polling station.

Of course, I wouldn't be registered to vote for this election in any case, as I imagine forms came round in the last few months etc.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

You had til about 3 weeks ago to register, and can have a postal vote, so I don't understand this.

[firin.livejournal.com]

Because I've emigrated and don't live in the UK anymore and don't have a UK address.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Ah I see, that makes it trickier esp. given that some postal ballot papers aren't getting to their destinations with enough turnaround time, which I think is lamentable and might be something I raise with my MP. On your later point, the likely timing of the General Election has been in the British newsmedia for months, and the election itself was announced more than 4 weeks ago, and it had to be no more than 5 years from last time (i.e. beginning of June at the latest).

I'm not sure on the detail but some long term ex-pats can vote, my ex-pat friend was just explaining earlier how. Maybe it depends partly on your exact status, and a time limit was also mentioned. I think the consulate can advise, if I understood correctly what he was saying, anyway. So if you want to vote in future maybe that's the way to go?

[firin.livejournal.com]

I haven't been following any media closely for months as I'm a new mum to a premature baby girl who was in intensive care for 3 months and just made it home a few weeks ago. My moments online are few and far between at the moment!

I'll certainly follow up, after your advice, and see if I can register for future elections though. I hadn't given it that much thought as I'd assumed that I was automatically ineligible as a permenant expat. Worth a try though! Thanks.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the partial double-posting, that wasn't me being belligerent, that was LJ telling me it hadn't posted the first one properly when evidently it had!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

You had til about 3 weeks ago to register, and postal votes are available, so I don't necessarily understand this reasoning (although I DO understand that some people, such as (but not exclusively) some armed forces personnel HAVE been disenfranchised).

[firin.livejournal.com]

And 2 weeks ago is about when I became aware from the net that there was a general election. :)

[adaese.livejournal.com]

It's also possible to arrange a proxy, which saves a bit of faffing around worrying about postal deadlines. My uncle in CA does this.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Yes, I will vote though I can't believe I'm still dithering! I've voted the same way in the Generals every time since 1979 but I would much prefer to vote for a smaller, no hope, party that fits my very exacting requirements far better! I have until my way home from work to make up my mind. Our polling station is the village hall and I'm always the only one there!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

You might be surprised, ours was reportedly "busy" this evening. Ours is never 'busy'!

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Lol! No, it was just me and the two old ladies taking names and, as usual, I said, 'busy today then,' and, as usual, they assured me that it had been earlier!

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the "not eligible" boxes, something Yougov has been struggling with.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Me to philmophlegm, this morning, suspiciously:
" Are you laughing at my hat? You're laughing at my hat aren't you?"

philmophlegm: "No, I'm not laughing at your hat."

(pause)

"I'm laughing at your attitude to parliamentary democracy."

:-o !

[gayalondiel.livejournal.com]

I voted twice for each! But for different people in the local one, which was a bit strange.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

The deed is done...

There was a huge queue!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Ambiguous question (shame on you, the statistician (of sorts)!). Yes, I have voted, but not today.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Me too - postal voted a week ago.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Since I am neither a UK citizen nor a resident, I obviously didn't go to the polls yesterday. However, I did one of those online "let us tell you whom to vote for" surveys, just for fun, and apparently I'd the ideal LibDem voter, whatever that means.