Voting. I’m so glad we still have the ‘old fashioned’ system…

Barbadosbelle

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Postal voting should only be allowed for those who are physically unable to attend in person. Which should be confirmed by a GP.
It is far too open to fraud.
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Nonsense. As I said, we now use postal votes, because being at home on the day of an election (local, mayoral, police commissioner or GE) is not necessarily going to happen. Others will have their own reasons, which won’t always be physical incapacitation.

Voter turnout is low enough without making it more difficult for people. I have never not voted, and certainly have never done so fraudulently.

Barbadosbelle

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Postal voting should only be allowed for those who are physically unable to attend in person. Which should be confirmed by a GP.
It is far too open to fraud.
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As if the GPs are not busy enough. They would also charge as they do for most documentation

Nurseundercover

I don’t think we should be using pencils to place our X these can be tampered with. We should use a biro.

Biros had leech ink a bit and cause confusion if the ink lands on another candidate's name. Do you seriously think anyone is going to spend hours laboriously rubbing out individual votes and putting the X elsewhere? You'd have to do thousands to make a difference and the rubbing out would show anyway!

Barbadosbelle

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Postal voting should only be allowed for those who are physically unable to attend in person. Which should be confirmed by a GP.
It is far too open to fraud.
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So you think those who happen to be away from home on polling day should lose their right to vote?

Until my mother died last year, I was away from home for two weeks at a time every two weeks, alternating caring duties with my sister. Obviously one of us would be away from home when there was an election. I think it's reasonable that under those circumstance we should be allowed a postal vote. I am sure there are many more people whose circumstances mean they cannot always vote in person.

Good points here.

1. Have to use a biro or a felt tipped own instead of a pencil. Preferably one with indelible ink. If they make a mistake. Tough.

2..Postal voting should only be confined to people who are genuinely housebound. Or have genuine walking or other mobility issues. Or genuinely do work away. Needs employer verification. Open to abuse

3. Postal voting is wide open to fraud etc. Think voting forms that go to an addresses where the occupant has left or died.

Details not updated right away on the Electoral Register. So new occupant who may not even be allowed to vote can use the postal voting form as a form of identification.

Apart from the rigged postal votes

I don’t think we should be using pencils to place our X these can be tampered with. We should use a biro.

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Postal voting should only be allowed for those who are physically unable to attend in person. Which should be confirmed by a GP.
It is far too open to fraud.
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Results:

Reform 790 up 786
Lib. 514 up 58
Cons. 464 down 366
Lab 456 down 597
Green 215 up 146
Ind 93 down 12

Very quiet at my polling station yesterday. Counting hasn't started yet in Wales but Labour is expected to lose after 100 years in power.

I have had a postal vote for years mainly because I used to work very unsocial shifts and lived in a remote area so accessing the polling station was stressful and often inconvenient. Even when I moved house I kept the postal vote and now MrA has it too.

When I was a child we lived opposite a place which was regularly used as a polling station and I recall there always being a policeman on duty, just the one, no riot gear, no crowd control……..just a local beat bobby.

Postal voting for me ever since we retired as we regularly hopped between Manchester and Málaga and as Himself used to rack & stack our flights it was the best option to ensure we voted.

Queues late afternoon. Hope they made good choices.

Only one other person voting at the polling station I voted at. Ominously quiet. We had to queue to get in last time.

Never seen or heard about any dogs outside the polling station, and rarely see people I usually go before 8am on my way to work so rarely see anyone soon community feeling for me

If you have no passport or driving licence, you can get a Voter Authority Card, free, from the council.

Just have to apply a bit before an election, don’t leave it until the last minute.

Business as usual in my polling station this morning. Thank goodness we don't need an app, QR code or pin number in order to vote, just simple ID. Long may it last.

We went quite early this morning and as usual, it was calm, efficient and friendly. You don't need photo ID for Scottish elections, just like Wales.

Doodledog, is it not possible to use your bus pass as ID? Or get some sort of thing from your council? That is should you decide to go back to voting in person - I know how you feel about the community feel to voting at a polling station. It is a privilege to be able to vote in any way, isn't it?

We always voted in person, but switched to postal when our passports expired, as I don't have a driving licence. I miss going into the booth, and passing friends and neighbours on the walk to the church hall. There was a community feel to it all, as well as a sense of continuity, knowing how many people had done the same before us.

I don't know if we'll switch back, as we are often away, and it's convenient to do it by post.

Witzend

Casdon

The X in the box is still the same, but we now have online verification of the poll card, and because of the location of our polling station the wifi signal is not good. We were in a queue to vote this morning because the scanner was playing up.

We don’t have to take the polling card - it actually says so.
I just took my passport, dh took his photo Freedom Pass.

Did you not have to take photo ID? I had thought it was compulsory now.

No, you don’t need photo id for Wales elections yet.

The advantage of a postal vote is the ability to tear it up into pieces… recognising the futility of UK politics.

Casdon

The X in the box is still the same, but we now have online verification of the poll card, and because of the location of our polling station the wifi signal is not good. We were in a queue to vote this morning because the scanner was playing up.

We don’t have to take the polling card - it actually says so.
I just took my passport, dh took his photo Freedom Pass.

Did you not have to take photo ID? I had thought it was compulsory now.

Agree. I even agree with proving your identity - even though the 'officer' always, 'Hi kitty, love your front garden at the moment' or something like that.

The X in the box is still the same, but we now have online verification of the poll card, and because of the location of our polling station the wifi signal is not good. We were in a queue to vote this morning because the scanner was playing up.

Oreo

And being British we enjoy all the pics of dogs outside the polling stations.🦮🐩🐕

None outside our polling station! 🙁.
But it was very quiet generally.