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**You don't need your polling card to vote** Let's keep this near the top

136 replies

vesela · 06/05/2010 09:09

You don't need your polling card to vote - if you don't have it, just turn up at the polling station and tell them your name and address. You don't need ID unless you're in Northern Ireland.

More details here:
www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/general_election_faq.aspx

If you don't know where your polling station is, check your local council's website or give them a call.

Let's try and keep this near the top so noone misses out on voting

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colditz · 06/05/2010 21:46

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OmicronPersei8 · 06/05/2010 21:41

enough time to go out and vote, I meant.

OmicronPersei8 · 06/05/2010 21:40

20 minutes to go - I bet that's time to go out and vote.

I was talking to a friend in his late 50s today, he wasn't going to vote as he couldn't find his card. He went to vote without it after all!

schroeder · 06/05/2010 21:30

1 last bump and I'll leave you alone.
My fingers are crossed.

Jux · 06/05/2010 21:13

bump - still time!

PricklyThistle · 06/05/2010 20:59

That's exactly it tacticalfloosy - if at any point you have told a party that you will be supporting them, you'll be on their list. Their main priority on election day is to get you out to vote. So if you give them your number on polling day (although they shouldn't be stopping you to ask ) then they should cross you off their list and not bother you again.
On a related vote, if you are canvassed prior to an election, don't say you're going to vote for them just to get rid of them. The reverse will happen, you will go on a supporters list and you will be hounded and inundated with paperwork.

only 1 hour to go....

weblette · 06/05/2010 20:53

Bump

Spoof · 06/05/2010 20:36

I'm not farking allowed to vote. Some cock up with receiving my registration form. Royal Mail currently have the finger pointed......

So, if anyone wasn't going to bother, do you think you could do us a favour and pop out and vote on my behalf?

tacticalfloosy · 06/05/2010 20:33

bump.

I always give my number to the teller because otherwise i get the unbelievably active city councillor who works 24 hours a day knocking on my door every hour on the hour until I've voted.

In 2005 I nearly stuck a poster to the door saying 'YES I HAVE' because it was a close call in the City and they were HOUNDING us.

Jux · 06/05/2010 20:25

bump

McDreamy · 06/05/2010 19:28

I was surprised about no id too. DH is unable to vote as he is away last minute unavoidably on business, nothing he could do.

My brother who lives in the same town but has a different Polling Station could go to our polling station, give my DH's details and vote by illegal proxy for DH.

slipperthief · 06/05/2010 19:04

just wondering really how long this needs to be bumped for.

bit of an anticlimax having posted mine three days ago.

OtterInaSkoda · 06/05/2010 19:02

10 pm sliperthief!

slipperthief · 06/05/2010 19:01

bump

what time do they close?

unfitmother · 06/05/2010 18:59

And you don't need to give your voting number to the officious Tory bastard person at the door either

Waswondering · 06/05/2010 18:55

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tvaerialmagpiebin · 06/05/2010 18:51

BUMP

Waswondering · 06/05/2010 18:48

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OtterInaSkoda · 06/05/2010 18:48

For every unused vote, a fairy dies.

Berrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrump!

schroeder · 06/05/2010 18:42

bump still more than 3 hrs to go

NetworkGuy · 06/05/2010 18:29

waswondering re no ID and voting as someone else.

I suppose the only way to get 2 bites at the cherry would be to visit (eg with wig and clear glasses) and use neighbour's name, early in the day, and later go as yourself, say after 8pm, with ID, just in case you were asked. If asked, you could at least know your neighbour went in to vote later on and they are suspicious. If not asked for ID, you'd have got away with it, probably.

Also depends how many likely to use your polling station, and whether there's anyone who knows you (or neighbour) personally and might spot a second visit or the impersonation.

OtterInaSkoda · 06/05/2010 18:26

TIme for another bababababababbabBuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuMMMMMMppppppPPah

You are allowed to take a dog in if you like. But the dog is not allowed to vote, even if they're 18 in dog years.

slipperthief · 06/05/2010 18:17

bump and glad to hear this thread's worked Fluufy

Jux · 06/05/2010 18:02

bump

Alibabaandthe40tories · 06/05/2010 17:51

I can't understand non-voters either. Good for you HMHB for trying to persuade people!