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Originally Posted by Matt D
On the one hand, I wonder why didn't they turn up earlier.
However, some people were apparently queueing for up to three hours, so you can't blame them for being late to the polling station. It's also not the fault of voters if the polling station runs out of ballot papers, or only has one person handing ballot papers out, etc. One news item mentioned somewhere (Sheffield?) where lots of students were trying to vote, without polling cards, which then slowed it down for everyone else, causing people who did have polling cards to lose their chance to vote due to the delays.
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Fair point. If you have not got your card, back of the line. It's not like this was called yesterday... Jeez me and the mrs had to go through the paperwork to register etc so we got our cards and kept them safe. Stoodents eh
Running out of ballot papers, well, who would have thunk it? Lots of people coming out to voice an opinion. They should have thought about that on granted.
But. If they were that hell bent, the polling stations were open at 0700 and there was the option of postal / proxy voting.
No excuse imo, flame me.