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

[vesela]

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

Indeed, venusonarockbun it makes me cringe that in a democracy, once they get all the voting slips scanned in, they will be able to 'take out' those who voted for particular candidates, or might have written some threatening comment in another language.

If ID cards are not enough, even your votes for the past umpteen years can be identified and mean you get listed as some kind of radical, or threat!

Before the time of a dictatorship, I hope to be off these shores.

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my dh is annoyed 'cos he can't vote as he has had to work away unexpectedly this week.
[ponders dressing up and voting for him...]

vintage - what Lenin said. Did you register him to vote? I think they ask you to name anyone aged 16 or over (or something).

at the highly subversive uglymugly. Ticks - whatever next?

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sadly the girl who did my hair today said she won't be voting as she doesn't know anything about elections or anything about those running . I tried my best to get her to go and tell her who was running but I am afraid its to no avail.

same her taxi driver said that if he did vote it would snp but wouldnt be voting as he didnt know anything about it . i nagged him too to no avail . Thanks for the replys about ds dont think i did register him to vote..oops dont tell him that

Oh dear at hairdresser girl; don't understand non voters at all. DS1 off today with what I think might be hayfever and I was quite pelased he got to see us vote as he may well be able to himself in 2 elections, and as he has AS getting through that door without watching us do it might be a barrier IYSWIM.

There's been no local publicity for candidates, even though I did have a look to see, and I spent weeks poring over which to go for so imagine my surprise to look and see that the name of the person I did decide on is in fact someone I would actually choose to vote for as a person! Wife to our Assembly Memnber, pair of them excellent constituents reps.

Shame they don't stand a chance tbh. labour double LD votes last time, and more than doubled tory.

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Bump. Someone in front of me in the polling station was asking about the difference between the local elections and the General Election. She asked what they each did and seemed confused that the parliamentary candidates were campaigning on local issues.

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Woman at the door of polling station asked me if I had my polling card, to which I replied "yes" and sailed on past. You don't have to tell them anything!

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[I, sheeplike handed mine over to anyone who held out their hand]

Couldn't mumsnet keep it at the top ?

Bump. We never received our polling cards, so we just turned up and told them our address (I'd called last week to check that we were on ther roll) - no ID needed. The guy there gave me a form to fill in and send in where I can mention the fact that I didn't get my card. Apparently it's quite a common problem.

Violet, I did report one of my own posts, to ask MNHQ to sticky this at the top, but no-one's replied to me (or indeed, stickied the thread ).

I is unloved and ignored

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Just so Poledra doesn't go unanswered......bump!

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a quick bump before tea