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I know, I know. There's always one, but did I have to register seperately to vote today

60 replies

SatansLittleHelper2 · 23/06/2016 12:09

I keep seeing posts about registering to vote, I didnt bother as already registered or so I.thought. Confused Im not so sure now.

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WanHeda · 23/06/2016 12:10

I turned up to vote today, to be told I had been unregistered Shock I always vote and have never had a problem.

GreenSand · 23/06/2016 12:11

Have you received a polling card?

DrivingMissLazy1 · 23/06/2016 12:11

No. If you're registered for local elections then you should be automatically included in this referendum. Did you not get a polling card?

ShatnersBassoon · 23/06/2016 12:12

Go along to your regular polling station. It doesn't matter if you don't have a card.

Somerville · 23/06/2016 12:12

If you're on the electoral roll at your current residence then you can vote.

If you've moved house, even to the house next door, then you needed to register again at your new address.

YesILikeItToo · 23/06/2016 12:13

You didn't have to register for this vote in particular. You don't need a polling card to vote. For all you know, you are able to vote so you should go and try!

OnionKnight · 23/06/2016 12:14

Myself and my wife haven't received polling cards, we've received them in the past.

Can't work out what's happened, my parents for example have received their cards and they didn't register online as like us they have received polling cards in the past.

WanHeda · 23/06/2016 12:15

I had no polling card. I have not moved house. I turned up to vote today to be told that I have been unregistered, even though I voted in the GE. So not all the info here is correct.

Imnotaslimjim · 23/06/2016 12:16

AFAIK you should be registered automatically if you registered or the local election. If you haven't got your voting card, check aboutmyvote.com to find you're nearest voting office and they can tell you if you're registered. You might need to take photo ID

FlaviaAnsell · 23/06/2016 12:17

WanHeda, did you vote, or receive a polling card, for the local elections last month?

WanHeda · 23/06/2016 12:18

No to both. They must have unregistered me because of that?

purplefox · 23/06/2016 12:22

There were changes to the registration process before the last general election, if you were registered to vote for that and haven't moved house there should be no mystery unregistrations.

OnionKnight · 23/06/2016 12:24

Thinking about it, the last polling cards we received were for this year, maybe for the police or something?

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeG0es · 23/06/2016 12:24

We get asked to confirm our registration every year, might you have forgotten to do yours?

I was feeling twitchy last night when I realised we hadn't had polling cards (lived here for years), but we did vote in the police commissioner elections recently so I went along this morning and we were on the list.

WanHeda · 23/06/2016 12:27

I must be making it all up then purplefox Grin

WanHeda · 23/06/2016 12:29

If it was a re-registering thing, why was my husband still on the list but I wasn't?

FlaviaAnsell · 23/06/2016 12:29

The electoral register is updated every autumn. If you didn't receive a polling card in May, you probably dropped off when the new register was compiled last year.

FlaviaAnsell · 23/06/2016 12:32

WanHeda, I think everyone is responsible for registering him/herself now, rather than someone filling out a form for the whole household, as used to happen. Presumably your husband did and you didn't.

BarbaraofSeville · 23/06/2016 12:35

Wan Every so often we get a form from the council asking us to confirm who lives there for electoral register (and council tax purposes I think).

Could whoever filled in this form made a mistake somehow that has led the council to believe that you no longer live there?

Socksey · 23/06/2016 12:36

The only people who can vote on this are British and (resident) Irish. All other nationalities, including EU citizens, who can vote in local elections and on EU matters usually, cannot vote on this occasion, even if you are on the electoral roll.

BarbaraofSeville · 23/06/2016 12:37

Do they not send the form anymore Flavia? I can't remember now - if there are two people in a house do they both get a 'do you still live here' letter, rather than the previous form? Confused

FledglingFridge · 23/06/2016 12:37

If you're on the electoral roll at your current residence then you can vote.

I'm on the electoral roll but when I went to vote previously I was told I'd been unregistered. Because reasons apparently. I wouldn't have minded but when I didn't get my card that time I rang to check I was on the electoral roll. Got told yes. When I went to vote. I got told the voters roll and the electoral roll are now different things.

I wouldn't usually consider myself a dafty but I felt one that day when I couldn't vote. Apparently the info I'd given them didn't match what they'd had a on file. My married name caused the issues, even though I've voted in my married name twice.

AliceInUnderpants · 23/06/2016 12:38

Wan, either I know you and you posted about this on FB at 9.09am, or this is a more widespread problem.

purplefox · 23/06/2016 12:38

There used to be a joint form for the household, a while ago and before the election it changed to individual registration.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Electoral_Registration

Sparklemummyx0x0x · 23/06/2016 12:42

Yep I get a form every year I think asking if the people on the list that are registered to vote still live there and to document any changes. I think I texted back with my personal code to say unchanged.
Or maybe that was for something else