General Election: Who the hell am I going to vote for???

Dunno my dad asked them why they dont ask for I.D, him and my mum only had to give their names and he said to the women but you dont know if i am who i say i am

She then aparently said a lot of people have said that today lol

 

Voted, but nothing will change, the world will keep spinning as they say
But this did make me laugh

 

Its all a bit quaint aint it.
My polling station is the local youth club.
Members who normally use the club are probably a bit put out by it all, as you have the group outside smoking, pushing each other around, and generally being obnoxious.

Then you get inside and find a row of 5 people, not sure what they all do, but one takes your card and reads it out loud, presumably just to prove to the other four he can read, then number three hands you two bits of paper, one yellow one white.

You then go over to a stall that looks like it was made out of stuff taken from a local skip.

Using the blunt 2in long pencil tied on the end of a 3 foot piece of hairy string you make your marks.

Then you are directed to the ballot boxes by no 5, put the yellow one in the box with the yellow sticker and the white one in the box with the white sticker she says.

Leave the building, hoping you dont get mugged on the way out.

Great fun. Why dont we do this more often

 

A complete contrast here,what a jolly lot they were,our Local Tory chap was there Tie off,sleeves rolled up,think he was trying to pass himself off as Mr Cameron
Chatting to the lady helpers there has been a 75% turn out so far,unheard of in these parts.

I wonder if it'll go to penalties

 

I feel like i should go to a polling station at some point in my life

Only ever done postal vote because to me its always made more sense that you can do it in your own time

But i have no idea what its like to go to a polling station and feel like i should

To be honest i think we should be able to vote online but since they keep going on about worries of fraud and hacking in that yet there is no security checks in place to vote in person after all these years i doubt that will happen anytime soon

 

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You're lucky Pete, we had another one as well. " Do you want Kidderminster to have a town council" answer yes or no.

Considering we already have a borough/district council and this is going to cost an extra £60 a year I think the answer's obvious.

 

I've voted for just over 30 years now and this is the first time I've ever had to join a queue outside the building. It took 25 minutes.

 

@fat controller they talk about encouraging more young people to vote and be more involved I think being able to vote online would have quite a big impact and make it easier for people to get involved and would stir up more interest to be the first people to ever vote online for example

 

There was only three of us there at 5pm when I voted.

 

Aren't the ward and council the same thing. They are here.
We vote for who we want to run our ward and then all the winners take their place on the council.