London Mayoral Election 2024
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Why did you buy something he wanted?
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
1% interest on an investment in just a day isn't too bad. It's the equivalent of 365% annually, isn't it?In other words, not worth a punt. But if Binface wins, it's 1000/1 so worth a quid for a potential grand return
hash tag
Books, not bombs
You rarely see a poor bookies, besides some high streets are littered with them.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes, because they hedge all of their bets, unlike the punters
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
There is a small, dangerous part of me that would quite enjoy one of the absolute no-hopers winning, just to watch reality crash down on them in the Trussian clusterfuck that would follow.
Except, y'know, it would also be really bad for an awful lot of people.
Except, y'know, it would also be really bad for an awful lot of people.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Could you imagine what it would mean for us if bucket head or the person from the animal liberation front became mayor.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Probably not all that much tbf
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Well, having literally just returned from voting for the former, I'm counting on Kahn's projected dominance to render it the meaningless protest vote I intended it to be.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I didn't get to vote. 
I hadn't managed to send in my postal vote, so went in in person (had to take my daughter anyway) and they said I couldn't change to an in-person vote because it was after 5pm. None of the govt websites mentioned that. Still, at least it's better than last time when they claimed I had to go to the town hall to do it.
If Khan loses by one vote, I'll know who to blame!
I hadn't managed to send in my postal vote, so went in in person (had to take my daughter anyway) and they said I couldn't change to an in-person vote because it was after 5pm. None of the govt websites mentioned that. Still, at least it's better than last time when they claimed I had to go to the town hall to do it.If Khan loses by one vote, I'll know who to blame!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It does say that on the voting papers unfortunatelyI didn't get to vote.
If Khan loses by one vote, I'll know who to blame!
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Where? They can only issue a replacement postal vote until 5pm, but that's not what I was doing.
It says you can hand it in till 10pm. They were wrong.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I remember reading it on mine somewhere.
What i did neglect, however, was to put the slip in the envelope the right way round. I then sealed it before noticing the address didn’t show in the window. So I had to rip open the envelope, flip the papers around, then reseal the envelope. So there’s a good chance my vote won’t be counted.
What i did neglect, however, was to put the slip in the envelope the right way round. I then sealed it before noticing the address didn’t show in the window. So I had to rip open the envelope, flip the papers around, then reseal the envelope. So there’s a good chance my vote won’t be counted.
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Angus the Monkey did ok in Hartlepool
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Bloody hell, folks, if this continues we're barrelling towards a victory for Tarun Ghulati here! 
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
ETA from what i can tell, you can hand in your postal vote up until 10pm, but you can only switch to voting in person before 5pm.I remember reading it on mine somewhere.
What i did neglect, however, was to put the slip in the envelope the right way round. I then sealed it before noticing the address didn’t show in the window. So I had to rip open the envelope, flip the papers around, then reseal the envelope. So there’s a good chance my vote won’t be counted.
It’s not very clear though and should be made much clearer.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Voting in person is using the postal vote. It's basically just handing your vote in and filling in a form about it.
You could only cancel your postal vote up until April 17th. But I wasn't asking to do that.
I'm not misreading, you know. I was eligible to vote and the polling officers got it wrong.
Maybe your postal vote said something different somehow, but mine is very clear, and it's not like I photoshopped it.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
(ETA - posted before i saw #198 so have repeated some of what you said)
i did the postal vote thing this time, as i knew i was going to be away for work today and couldn't face either getting up even earlier to go and vote, or having to go on the way home (office is about an hour and a half away, but i only go there about once a month)
the bumf i got says pretty much the same thing as the image you've posted about 'if you miss the post....' - handing it over at council office during office hours, or before 10 pm at any polling station on the patch but you have to fill an additional form in to do that.
it says you can only cancel your postal vote (to change to voting in person) before 17 april, so i don't think the concept of changing to an in-person vote on the day is a thing. (i think the rules are national rather than each council making their own rules up, although there's an outside chance the rules are different in london mayoral / GLA compared to a local council outside london)
the idea of having to fill in a separate form when handing over a postal vote seems new - i know there have been allegations of dodgy practices with people gathering a lot of other peoples' postal votes and going to hand a bundle of them in.
but i think someone (at your polling station) has blundered, may be worth contacting the council once they have caught up on their sleep next week.
if council i work for is anything to go by (i live too far away to consider doing poll clerk duty there) there's probably a lot of new people on election duty today, but when i did poll clerk somewhere else years ago, i was told that if a situation happened i didn't know what to do about, to refer to the presiding officer rather than risk giving a wrong answer. and even if something happens that presiding officer at a polling station isn't sure about, there are roving senior officers they could have called.
or alternatively make a huge fuss if candidate you don't like wins by 1 vote...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I think then that the officers thought you were trying to vote in person ie tick the box in a voting booth, rather than hand in your postal vote. So if even officers are unclear about the rules, then the rules need to be made clearer.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I was very clear about what I wanted to do, and showed them the relevant part on my form. There's no point arguing with them though - in my area we even have a cop at every polling station and they're pretty jumpy.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Oh that is just golden
ska invita
back on the other side
i just cant bring myself to see the funny side on this one - what a cunt he is
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
the cunt who brought in the voter id legislation
getting turn away from voting because he did not bring any.. more than likely thought I'm Boris fucking Johnson..
what is not funny about it
seeming as he have posted an daily mail headline about how easy it was to fool the system if he managed to vote without id
getting turn away from voting because he did not bring any.. more than likely thought I'm Boris fucking Johnson..
what is not funny about it
seeming as he have posted an daily mail headline about how easy it was to fool the system if he managed to vote without id
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I can, but it’s tempered by the knowledge that many less arrogant, poorer folk without photo ID, won’t even have bothered to turn up to the polling station.
ska invita
back on the other side
i get why its funny, its fine to find it funny, im just too angry about it - he's such a fucking danger to the world, from peace in ukraine to voter suppression, he just poisons every thingthe cunt who brought in the voter id legislation
getting turn away from voting because he did not bring any.. more than likely thought iln British fucking Johnson
what is not funny about it
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
This and Tom Hunt also getting turned away has made me laugh out loud. It’s the delicious irony of bringing in a law to disenfranchise the poor, the young and the ignorant, only to disenfranchise entitled nitwits who never ever think laws could ever possibly apply to themselves but soon fuck around and find out.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
he is an evil self interested prick i'll give you that
his entitled quest for power lead is down the road of the situation we are today
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