Whatever happened over the polling station problems?

[nymphadora]

Ballot paper shortages/closing with queues etc

I never heard anything of it after the election

Well, the quangocrat in charge, Jenny Watson, has been partly admonished by Eric Pickles by having a £14000 non-job at the Audit Commission removed:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310025/Eric-Pickles-fires-left-wing-quango-queen-blamed-election-night-shambles.html

However she is still £100000 head of the Electoral Commission. As far as I can tell, she still hasn't admitted any responsibility for the shambles, and spends her time these days going round blaming other people.

The practical solution is obvious. At 10pm everyone in the queue should be allowed into the polling station; no further people are let in. Those in the polling station are then allowed to vote. If the polling station is too small, then plonk a volunteer in the cutoff point in the queue and another volunteer or two to make sure no-one queue-jumps; no-one after the cutoff point is allowed to vote.

There is a procedure that already exists according to my mother who is an election official in her area. Which is that if the person in charge of the polling station sees that queues are getting unmanageable they call HQ and ask for extra help in clearing it well before the 10pm deadline. Should people still be waiting at 10pm in spite of extra help then they are allowed into the polling station and the door locked behind them.

The shortage of ballot papers was worst thing IMO as they still only had 70% turn out in busiest places.