To ask if you will actually vote?

If you don't fancy any of the parties, it would be useful to be counted as a spoiled vote if you can summon the energy (you could apply for a postal vote if you do it today; but less effort!). I think getting a message across that no party suits us is actually really important this time.

I’m sorry about your mobility issues. But a previous poster has explained you are talking about the Irish elections, I thought this thread was about the UK GE. My mistake.

Though I’m now not sure what you mean about there being no taxis in the UK!

I'm not sure if I will vote and am shocked at myself for feeling this way

I am a Brit in the EU. I will be voting this weekend for the European Parliament elections and have requested a postal vote for the upcoming UK election.

yeah it’s this really, people died and also continue to die for the right to vote, so whether i go in person or do a proxy, and whether i vote or spoil my ballot, i’ll for sure go

Other countries have taxis. Not UK.

'down the road' means nearish. In my electoral area. In my case I can barely make it down the stairs so not near enough.

Yes.

Yes of course. Have always voted.
Why wouldn't I?

The Irish are voting in the EU elections today (and maybe local elections too?).

I’m confused. You said in a previous post that the polling station is just down the road from you and that your husband and daughter would be voting but you can’t because you can’t go there except by taxi. Which implies you are in the UK. Now you say you’re abroad and that voting is today? Even though no voting is taking place today. Anywhere. Am I missing something?

You can still get a postal vote until the end of today if it's easier for you.

A 'none of the above' option would potentially get the most votes this GE! I've honestly never seen so many people struggling to choose a party to vote for.

And a change I've seen on here for this GE is that I've seen fewer people coming on the say that spoiled votes are a waste of time and you should actually be voting for a party. That's an interesting change, IMO.

I really don't like the idea of a legal obligation. It's far too authoritarian imo.

It's today. I'm not sure we have that option here, I know there's postal voting but missed that obviously.

You can register for a proxy vote so your H or DD can cast the vote on your behalf.

Yes. Our polling station is difficult for me to get to due to mobility issues but I'm still going and voting. It feels more important than ever this year.

Of course. I've never missed a vote since I was old enough (in the eighties)

Same here. The first general election I was eligible to vote in was in 1982, when Margaret Thatcher won her largest majority. (I didn't vote Conservative, by the way.) I've voted in every general election and by-election since then. I lived abroad for several years and didn't vote in council elections but I did vote in general elections as I always intended to return to the UK. While living in the UK I have voted in every election: general, by-, council, European Parliament, etc.

I have not voted for the same party in every election, but I have never voted Conservative and never will under any circumstances. I will continue to vote in every election until I succumb to dementia.

I will go to the polling station, whether I select a candidate or spoil my ballot will be determined by the party manifestos.

At the moment a spoilt ballot looks most likely. I know it will be counted but I would prefer a 'none of the above' option.

Yes, because people fought hard for my right to vote, but I'm not against spoiling ballots if you feel that NoTA is the message you want to send. No-one knows that your vote is a "least worst" option, parties take a vote as an endorsement that you agree with them and actively want what they stand for. In this election I will vote for a candidate I know and like although I know they have no chance of winning.

I will. Great photo opportunity of a piece if paper being stuffed into a box.

Yes. I don’t usually vote (e.g. Brexit where I thought it would surely get rejected).

We’re in a usually safe seat where we live, but I don’t want to rely on that!! Will drag DH with me too 😂

It’s a legal obligation in Australia, I think they fine you. How enforced it is I have no idea.
I think you’ll find voting processes in Russia or Iran aren’t quite the comparisons you’re after 😂

Yes. Everyone should vote, even if that means spoiling your paper...which is a vote in itself.

I always vote, in every election big or small. I've never lived in a marginal constituency for a GE, but still I vote. As it happens, this time we have a really great lib dem candidate who has made a massive impact in local government, so who knows

Yes will definitely be voting. I don't understand women who don't since we've not yet had the vote on the same basis as men for 100 years.

Will be away but already have a postal vote which is lucky.