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Will/Have you voted?

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Hulababy · 09/06/2004 20:19

We have two ballot papers - one for local elections and one for european one.

Dh has just picked up our ballot papers envelopes and realised that these have to be in by 10pm tomorrow evening. Missed last post so he is going to have to take them over to the City Hall tomorrow during the day some time. Ooops!

I have to say that I found the postal voting a bit of a pain as it is so easy to forget if you don't do it as soon as the envelope arrives, which is what we failed to do obviously!

Obviously for me it'd be loads easier if I could do it online as I spend so much time on here

So is everyone remembering to go along to vote, or are you abstaining (choosing the right not to vote I guess)?

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babster · 09/06/2004 20:27

I'll be voting - today we had a flyer through the door for the BNP, and I was so disgusted that it has spurred me on to cast my vote, just so slime like that doesn't sneak in through the back door through voter apathy. Eeurgh, hope they don't come round canvassing.

suzywong · 09/06/2004 20:29

I always vote
It wasn't so long ago women gave their lives for the right to vote, I think among all the other reasons to be politically involved this is a very powerful reasons for making sure we honour their courage and efforts and make the trip to the polling station.

Branster · 09/06/2004 20:30

can we go to vote if we lost our voting cards? we only want to vote for the local elections (as i understand teher are some for the EU, not sure how it works), can we go and vote just for the local elections??

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Hulababy · 09/06/2004 20:34

Yes, you don't have tohave your voting cards. I went without mine once in past. They just ask you your details and will find you on their lists.

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Branster · 09/06/2004 20:48

thank you hulababy! will you vote for the european thing as well?

kalex · 09/06/2004 20:56

I wil be voting tommorow. Have had nothing through the door, so I shall go tommorow and if I don't c anything I like I shall spoil my vote. And at least they shall know that I was THAT disappionteed in all the options. I will not not vote, antipathy is the evil that has led us to this!!!!

Tommy · 09/06/2004 20:59

You MUST vote - people throughout the ages and around the world (and particularly women) have fought and died for the right to vote so PLEASE USE YOUR VOTE
(this is a bit of a thing with me as you may have guessed

kalex · 09/06/2004 21:02

I totally agree with you Tommy

maisystar · 09/06/2004 21:02

hulababy, i dont have a voting card cos haven,t lived at this address long, so can i just turn up at city hall tomorrow and vote? do i need to take id?

Tommy · 09/06/2004 21:08

Maisystar - your voting card would have gone to your old address so you should go to the polling station that you would have used there. You don't need the polling card.

maisystar · 09/06/2004 21:10

don't know which polling station i would have used there cos only lived there 6 months!

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Hulababy · 09/06/2004 21:10

maisystar - Sheffield is all postal votes this year, with no polling stations. Looks like you may have to miss out this one but try and ensure you are on the elctral roll for next time.

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maisystar · 09/06/2004 21:13

cheers hulababy

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Hulababy · 09/06/2004 21:15

No probelms At least you know that the only reason you aren't voting is because you can't!

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Freckle · 09/06/2004 21:25

I shall be voting. Had a bit of a panic when my mum told me that the European elections were postal votes, as I'd thrown my away as we have local elections too and I'd assumed I'd do my voting there. Turns out that, as we're having local elections, I can vote in person in the European ones too. Just as well as I would have felt very hard done by if I'd ruined my chance to have my say. Mum lives in a different area where there are no local elections, so obviously her European voting is different.

Hulababy, did you get your postal votes OK? There was an article on the news about huge problems with the organisation of this type of voting, as well as suspicions of fraud.

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Hulababy · 09/06/2004 21:28

Ours came a while back. I put them to one side and duly fogot about them until DH unearthed them earlier!

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Twink · 09/06/2004 22:10

Another one who agrees with Tommy here.

BUT, I'm afraid to say that there are times when I attend the polling station & spoil my voting paper as I can't vote for any of them - but feel very strongly about my right to vote and can't not go

coppertop · 09/06/2004 22:30

Yep, I'll be voting tomorrow. However, I am the kiss-of-death for whichever candidate I vote for. I've only ever voted for a 'winner' once - and he was jailed shortly afterwards for benefits fraud.

robinw · 10/06/2004 08:05

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Toothache · 10/06/2004 08:11

I can't find the wee cards that we need to vote. Ho Hum..... sorry to say this, but I don't really care, they are all as bad as each other IMHO.

SoupDragon · 10/06/2004 08:11

Personally, I believe that people fought and died for my choice to vote. Going to vote and simply spoiling the paper is (IMHO!) no better than not voting at all as it just makes a mockery of it. But each to his/her own!

robinw · 10/06/2004 09:46

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Podmog · 10/06/2004 09:48

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Toothache · 10/06/2004 09:49

Robinw - I KNOW that the BNP aren't going to be voted in whether I vote or not. I was intending to vote Green as I am totally and utterly inaware of which party to go for!

Toothache · 10/06/2004 09:50

inaware??? Where did that come from? I mean I don't have a clue what's best, so I'm hoping everyone else does.