Check in when you have voted in the 2024 general election

[rubbershoes]

Everyone who uses a postal vote is failing to exercise an important part of their democratic right - the right to take dogs into the polling station.

You're allowed to take up to two dogs and to ask the polling station officer to hold the lead whilst you vote.

My dad fought* to preserve these rights.




* National service, long after the war in the hazardous environment of the Royal Army Pay Corps. Possibly he was on the front lines in Bracknell

 

[MickiQ]

Ballot papers posted

 

[moochedit]

I do the walk to the polling station thing so no not yet.

 

[Chz]

No papers yet, but the local post depot has lost at least a half dozen things over the past six months and it won't surprise me if they add to that list.
What is the process to vote in person if you're registered to vote by post?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

What is the process to vote in person if you're registered to vote by post?

contact the council - they can re-issue postal voting pack as late as 5pm on election day.

https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/guidance-acting-returning-officers-administering-a-uk-parliamentary-election-great-britain/absent-voting/issuing-and-distributing-postal-votes/re-issuing-postal-ballot-packs/procedure-re-issuing-lost/not-received-postal-votes

from my (some time ago) experience as a poll clerk, i think there is some special procedure for someone turning up on the day who's listed as having had a postal vote but wants to vote - think it involves putting ballot paper in to a special envelope and reporting the circumstances to the returning officer, or something (from my perspective, the process would have been 'get the presiding officer involved quick')

 

[JimW]

I think I could have had a vote even from foreign parts but would involve being more engaged and together than I am, so won't be.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Everyone who uses a postal vote is failing to exercise an important part of their democratic right - the right to take dogs into the polling station.

You're allowed to take up to two dogs and to ask the polling station officer to hold the lead whilst you vote.

My dad fought* to preserve these rights.




* National service, long after the war in the hazardous environment of the Royal Army Pay Corps. Possibly he was on the front lines in Bracknell

I took the dog to the post box does that count?

 

[maomao]

I think I could have had a vote even from foreign parts but would involve being more engaged and together than I am, so won't be.

I voted for Ken Livingstone from China but my mum dealt with it mostly.

 

[rubbershoes]

I took the dog to the post box does that count?

Pics or GTFO

 

[_Russ_]

Done, spoiled properly, will post today
If the candidates listed could please follow my instructions contained within and fuck the fuck off I will be properly pleased

 

[cesare]

Where's the poll gone?

 

[moochedit]

Where's the poll gone?

Disapeared when threads were moved to new forum. Thread in feedback about it.

 

[cesare]

Disapeared when threads were moved to new forum. Thread in feedback about it.

Oh. Thanks

 

[Silas Loom]

Where's the poll gone?

Restored.

 

[moochedit]

Oh. Thanks

Seems you can add polls in the new forum now. I just tested it.

 

[cesare]

Seems you can add polls in the new forum now. I just tested it.

Oh cool. So it was the great poll.cull.of 2024.

 

[Elpenor]

Oh cool. So it was the great poll.cull.of 2024.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce

 

[_Russ_]

No poll in here ever cuts the mustard... I had a postal vote and spoiled it so Jones of the poll options
Giant Stone Eater

 

[Silas Loom]

No poll in here ever cuts the mustard... I had a postal vote and spoiled it so Jones of the poll options
Giant Stone Eater

That’s voting. Spoiled ballot papers are counted. They make a statement, albeit an incoherent one. So you select the first option, unless you don‘t get round to posting the spoiled ballot, in which case you select the last one.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

We need the option:- "No, not yet - and I will not change my answer when I do"

 

[DotCommunist]

Everyone who uses a postal vote is failing to exercise an important part of their democratic right - the right to take dogs into the polling station.

You're allowed to take up to two dogs and to ask the polling station officer to hold the lead whilst you vote.

My dad fought* to preserve these rights.




* National service, long after the war in the hazardous environment of the Royal Army Pay Corps. Possibly he was on the front lines in Bracknell

I didn't know this. I'm taking gracie to the polling station then getting a photo of her with the polling bod.

 

[rubbershoes]

I didn't know this. I'm taking gracie to the polling station then getting a photo of her with the polling bod.

You can't take pictures inside.

 

[moochedit]

You can't take pictures inside.

It's just like nazi germany

 

[StoneRoad]

Wahay !

My postal ballot has [finally] arrived.
t'OH got theirs several days ago, and has already returned it.

I plan a small ceremony to vote and then walk Bella the collie to a post box for a selfie.

 

[_Russ_]

That’s voting. Spoiled ballot papers are counted. They make a statement, albeit an incoherent one. So you select the first option, unless you don‘t get round to posting the spoiled ballot, in which case you select the last one.

Utter Bollox

 

[A380]

Beat my ‘bee ballot box’

 

[Silas Loom]

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Beat my ‘bee ballot box’

NFN

 

[StoneRoad]

Wahay !

My postal ballot has [finally] arrived.
t'OH got theirs several days ago, and has already returned it.

I plan a small ceremony to vote and then walk Bella the collie to a post box for a selfie.

Done the deed, although the walk to the post box didn't happen as planned.

 

[MrCurry]

I sent my postal vote off yesterday. It was a bit of a job figuring out how to do it as the envelope they sent me had about six sheets of doubled sided printed papers, half of which were instructions telling you what the next sheet was for.

But finally I got the ballot paper into the small envelope then that plus the completed date of birth declaration into the large envelope. Lots of trees and squids gave up their lives making the paper and ink for this election.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Haven't had my papers yet.

Apparently my local council have said they have sent the last batch of postal votes out today.

The state the post is round here, I might get it before next Thursday...