Oh fuck I forgot to vote

[Icedlatteplease]

Left home for work before 7am have s long commute and the car is messing up a previous back injury so came home exhausted and in pain.

I just completely and utterly forgot.

It's as if women's sufferage never happened

Same OP and I always vote. Was an work event, didn’t get back until late 😣

I always do postal vote and haven’t received anything in the post which is worrying. Luckily I vote Lib Dem and it’s a safe in my area so 🤞 but I need to understand what’s happened with poll cards.

My dad used to tell us he didn't care who we voted for as long as we put a ballot paper in the box. He was a firm believer that people had fought for us to be able to vote and even if we put a blank ballot paper in it was better than ignoring it.

Obviously if you forgot then you forgot. The winning candidate last time in my area won by 16 votes so it was super close. Every vote counts!

Me too. Over fifty years of voting and I’ve never felt so disinclined.

I wonder which members of society are less likely to have a passport and how this might benefit the tories? 🤔

The last time I used a postal vote they registered it as fraudulent and didn't count it they sent me a letter to tell me this

We moved not long ago and I didn't receive a polling card. I could have gone back to my previous polling station to see if I was still registered there but somehow that seemed a bit wrong.
Today's job is making sure I'm registered correctly as I do not want to miss voting again, despite having no clue which shower of shite I would mark my X at.

Utter Bullshit. Choosing not to vote because you don't like the candidates vs never having the opportunity to vote is completely different.

Someone tried this emotional blackmail on me once. I politely told them that with the right to vote came the right to choose not to if all the candidates were an absolute shambles.

Men don't get pushed into spending part of their day spoiling their vote to make a point.

Sorry, wrong quote, was for @ObfuscationWithMenaces

Well it’s not benefitting them today!

I never hear anyone telling working class men this. The long and sometimes bloody struggle for the working class vote is completely forgotten in this country.

Just in case you think you need a passport to vote, you dont, there are lots of other acceptable ID things and you can apply for some kind of certificate too

I agree that it's can disenfranchise people but if the message isn't getting out its not only passports it needs to be better communicated

I must add this one to my repertoire, thanks!

A friend of ours has counted votes in the past. He says they do read them all.

I wrote a short essay on my ballot paper, DH used a short snappy sentence.

It's so frustrating that no party is worth voting for.

If your choices were anything like mine, I wouldnt worry about it

I'm another person who has a postal vote for this very reason. And fortunately I did, because I had an interview in another part of the country yesterday and wouldn't have been able to go to a polling station even if I'd wanted to anyway.

If your postal vote didn't arrive, why on earth would you wait until polling day to gripe about?
For future reference, you have until 5pm on polling day to arrange a replacement voter pack.

In my polling station the town hall officials actually delivered the replacement pack to the voter. Amazing service.

Also you an arrange an emergency proxy if you are unexpectedly away eg for work or in hospital. The election team work tirelessly to enable everyone to vote. Saying 'I forgot' is pathetic IMO.

So because of womens suffrage women have no choice now? Not sure that's what they were fighting for but you do you 🤷‍♀️

I wouldn't worry too much - 70% of people in my local area also "forgot" to vote 😅 Shockingly low turnout!

People have the right to choose whether they wish to vote, or not. They have a choice!

I was unexpectedly not around to vote.

Not that I care much about my local area. For the town council my ward only had 2 labour and 2 Tory candidates. For the district council (or whatever it is called) those same four town council candidates, as well as two people from parties I have never heard of: Heritage Party and Reform UK, both of which appear to be the right wing populist kind.

So basically I vote labour and shit on women, or vote anything right wing and shit on those less fortunate and the NHS.

There is an argument that the right to vote also is the right to chose not to vote. Free country and all that

Never made any sense to me that I could walk into a voting station say I was joanna bloggs down the road and noone could say otherwise. Also then if Joanne bloggs did turn up to vote later there would be bugger all you could do about it.

Photo id to vote just makes sense and should have been done years and years ago