@ Dave
Think you should just print your post out and stick it on the ballot paper!
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Posted 11 years ago #
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ballot picture could have been taken at home, of a postal ballot.
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Skelpt a pedal on the speed bump outside the polling place and cracked the reflector housing. I'll glue it.
Told the guys at the desk more than they wanted to know about gearing and why the S2L-X is said to have 56" and 74" gears.
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We had a polling station in our workplace!
I tried to level the playing field as lottery millions meant SNP had two placards to every one else's one. I stuck a spare labour poster on the SNP second placard giving SNP and Labour 1.5 placards each. However that blew off. So I put the second SNP placard flat on the ground.
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There was one Green placard outside our polling station this morning. By this evening it had been joined by another, a Labour one & a very battered SNP one. Voted for a party whose view on Independence I disagree with: I get my chance to express my opinion on that separately...
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fimm,
Professor Curtice silently hates you.
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@gembo
Remind us who funds the Labour party...Bernie Eccleston? No, they had to give that back, didn't they? Property millionaire Sir David Garrard...stockbroker Barry Townsley...Saatchi and Saatchi, property developer Andrew Rosenfeld...explains a bit, dunnit?
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Mostly unions that fund labour
Business man John mills donated £1.6million
Andrew rosenfield £600k
Tony Blair £75k
Sourced from c4 news website.
Not sure how much of this Scottish labour sees?
The nice Yes woman at the farmer's market told me that the yes campaign was funded by grassroots donations. She has dropped this line now due to one grass roots donation of £1.5 million. 50p for every vote? Obviously the lottery winners have also given far more to the SNP. I think this creates an imbalance in the campaign in our wee country but I am not neutral.
Not sure how much Sir Alex has given to better together?
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The footballs guy? I think it was £1 over the limit for people outwith Scotland.
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Plenty room for a non folding bike at my polling station, sufficiently quite not to need to worry about a lock either. Which may be just as well as the only railing I noticed near the entrance was a stair handrail.
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Just back from voting - absolutely nil cycle lock-up space at Musselburgh's Lady of Loretto church hall. I managed to find a handy pipe from the building to get my wrappy lock around. Cadre of SNP and LibDem campaigners outside.
Curiously these people never stop me and ask me how I voted or what I intend to vote. Same as the 'Yes' and 'No' campaigners who haunt MUsselburgh's High Street of a Saturday morning. I must have a hardened cynical look or something...
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Curiously these people never stop me and ask me how I voted or what I intend to vote.
I'm pretty sure they are not allowed to. Might have been years ago, but not now. I know because I stood outside a polling station during local elections with a green rosette. Was allowed to greet folk, which I did, but not allowed to ask how they will vote/had voted. Some thought I was the candidate and claimed they'd vote for me, others said a jolly hello, still others just gave a wry smile. It was quite fun and only cost a few hours of my time: if you want to campaign for a party I can recommend it, you meet all sorts!
Door-to-door canvassing is harder work: need comfy shoes, preferably dry weather, patience, and a willingness to field tricky questions from sceptical voters.
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The people standing outside the polling stations are there to get your polling number so they can cross you off their list if you've told them you're likely to vote for them. That way they know they don't need to knock on your door to remind you to go out and vote. At least that's what I was doing back when I used to help out at election time.
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Are parties allowed to organise the "voter bus" type idea here? i.e. pick up a gaggle of otherwise housebound pensioners and take them to the polls? (hopefully to vote their way)
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@sallyhinch, IME it depends how marginal the seat is supposed to be. In some seats, yes may be monitoring of polling numbrers and some 'knocking up' of voters going on. In others, just a friendly presence hanging around for voters to see. These things almost an irrelevance for Euro eletions as constiyuencies are so huge: the whole of Scotland is effectively one single constituency!
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Didn't bother locking my bike up. It's a village.
Mildly shocked at the bloke who drove down ahead of me, driving 0.2 miles to the polling station. I'm guessing he didn't vote Green.
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@crowriver - I've only ever campaigned in marginals so you're probably right. Sitting outside the polling station was always the most fun job.
In our village hall, we didn't even have any party placards & like Insto I didn't bother locking my bike.
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I like the scooter rack!
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Mildly shocked at the bloke who drove down ahead of me, driving 0.2 miles to the polling station. I'm guessing he didn't vote Green.
My toddler managed to walk the 400m to and from the polling station. Some people are irredeemably lazy.
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Am I the only person surprised that you can (as I did yesterday) vote without a card / id etc?
I just turned up, said my address and name and was passed the relevant paper to place my X.
I know it is 'the way' but I cant believe its so open to abuse.
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"I know it is 'the way' but I cant believe its so open to abuse."
Only in the sense that people could vote for others that they know won't vote, or haven't already.
But, it has it's own catchphrase -
'Vote early, vote often'!
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I didn't lock my bike up either. Was intending to leave it in the church porch, but they'd moved the voting to the hall, which coincided with the ramp being repaved - very bad timing- so anyone wanting to pinch it would have had to carry it up the stairs, out the gate and past the workmen. Besides it had the wean's red bike protecting it.
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@Nelly, chdot has beat me to it, but in Norn Iron we had/have stricter identification requirements.
If you didn't vote early enough there was a real possibility you'd have voted by the time you arrived to vote...
Robert
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About 10 years ago someone stole John Humphrys' vote.
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"Only in the sense that people could vote for others that they know won't vote, or haven't already"
Yes, thats where I was coming from - lots of older people around where I stay, voters roll freely available = the scenario Roibeard described.
Not sure it happens much but you could see how a marginal could be swayed by a committed (and criminal) element.
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"lots of older people around where I stay"
Statistically they are more likely to vote - especially now there are postal votes.
Presumably the electoral registers in polling stations aren't marked with 'already voted by post'?
Presumably at the count, the postal vote and the 'fake' vote would meet and the postal one counted??
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Not sure it happens much but you could see how a marginal could be swayed by a committed (and criminal) element.
I think it was Labour in Birmingham who found it was easier to just stuff the postal votes full of fraudulent Labour votes. Or then there's the "Falkirk Solution".
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Also surprised by how little security there was on ID. Even the old inky-finger thing would be more robust.
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Since there are only two blokes in my station I some how doubt I could go in twice or more and get away with it.
On a brighter note the turn out at my station was much higher than last time. I asked the guy last time at about 2130 and there had been 4 other people through the door...
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