Check in when you have voted in the 2024 general election

[Wilf]

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')

Yes, that sounds about right from my very long ago experience of being a poll clerk. Actually, not sure if I was even a poll clerk, think I was the assistant.

 

[Wilf]

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Beat my ‘bee ballot box’

What's Farage doing on there?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Posted mine today. Tactically voted for LibDems as they are the best bet in stopping the Tories retaking Maidenhead

 

[Voley]

We both postal voted last night.

Didn't feel quite the same as actually going to a polling station so we went down to the post box together and congratulated each other on participating in democracy with a formal handshake.

I might make this a custom.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Personally I am looking forward to voting at the polling station, there's usually Tory tellers outside, and I want to laugh in their faces, they have held the various constituencies covering the area for over 100 years, but no more.

 

[keybored]

You can't take pictures inside.

What if one of my dogs is called Pictures?

 

[SpookyFrank]

What if one of my dogs is called Pictures?

 

[Dom Traynor]

Cast my overseas vote for Stella Creasy.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

my papers turned up in the post yesterday.

all i need to do now is decide if i've got the energy and enthusiasm to vote for anyone, or to draw something on the paper

tending towards voting for the yellow vermin as best placed to win against the new tory twunt who's standing in place of the long term tory twunt who has stood down - would have been more of an inspiration to vote against him, but finding it hard to summon up any enthusiasm.

meh

and i don't have a dog to take to the post box, and doubt that either of neighbours' cats would want to go for a walk.

 

[moochedit]

my papers turned up in the post yesterday.

all i need to do now is decide if i've got the energy and enthusiasm to vote for anyone, or to draw something on the paper

tending towards voting for the yellow vermin as best placed to win against the new tory twunt who's standing in place of the long term tory twunt who has stood down - would have been more of an inspiration to vote against him, but finding it hard to summon up any enthusiasm.

meh

and i don't have a dog to take to the post box, and doubt that either of neighbours' cats would want to go for a walk.

Can't you take yourself?

 

[sojourner]

Posted mine Tuesday. Have postal voted for years now due to sheer laziness, can't be arsed going the polling station.

 

[Voley]

Posted mine Tuesday. Have postal voted for years now due to sheer laziness, can't be arsed going the polling station.

Omg, don't mention that on Twitter. There are right-wing nutjobs telling postal voters they're "abusing the system" on there just now.

marty21 has been setting a few of them right.

 

[sojourner]

Omg, don't mention that on Twitter. There are right-wing nutjobs telling postal voters they're "abusing the system" on there just now.

marty21 has been setting a few of them right.

Why is being lazy abusing the system??

 

[Voley]

Why is being lazy abusing the system??

Fuck alone knows. A young lad who was proud to be voting the first time posted a selfie putting his postal vote in the letterbox and they were all like "You can walk to a polling booth! You're abusing the system!" etc.

I think it had more to do with him being 1. Young and 2. Voting Labour that enraged them.

You might've thought they'd be pleased that someone was engaging with the democratic process in their preferred manner. But no.

I dId enjoy seeing someone posting one of those "Readers added context" things though, explaining why postal votes aren't an abuse of the system. and marty has been having fun with them.

 

[kenny g]

I've got a proxy vote as well this time so pretty chuffed. Am saving it all up for the in person experience.

 

[PR1Berske]

The fear about postal votes has been bubbling for a while (I remember the NW getting chosen as one of Labour's 'all postal vote ' experiment years ago and that was coated in off-stage whispers about bloc voting etc).

Trump would all but end mail-in voting and I think Farage is saying something very similar.