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**Chris** · 29-06-2024, 17:29

There is an unfolding scandal in Scotland as many people have not had their postal ballots in time for the beginning of the school holidays this weekend. Some councils have been forced to open centres where people can collect ballots in person before they head off wherever they’re going.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02knj0l7xo

The councils are implicitly blaming voters who didn’t apply for their postal ballot until after 7 June, as this is the cut off date between two major tranches of collating/posting out votes to those who applied. Naturally this is an administrative date nobody outside the system can reasonably have known about. Naturally, also, those inside the system have shown remarkably little concern for the fact that the Scottish school holidays commence at the end of June every single year and all of this was entirely foreseeable.

Those councils which have not set up emergency collection points are complacently predicting everyone’s vote will be delivered by today, but anyone who doesn’t get one should phone their local office on Monday. By when many of them will of course already be wherever they were going that necessitated a postal vote in the first place.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,120	Re: The traditional CF voting intentions thread, week 6 There is an unfolding scandal in Scotland as many people have not had their postal ballots in time for the beginning of the school holidays this weekend. Some councils have been forced to open centres where people can collect ballots in person before they head off wherever they’re going. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx02knj0l7xo The councils are implicitly blaming voters who didn’t apply for their postal ballot until after 7 June, as this is the cut off date between two major tranches of collating/posting out votes to those who applied. Naturally this is an administrative date nobody outside the system can reasonably have known about. Naturally, also, those inside the system have shown remarkably little concern for the fact that the Scottish school holidays commence at the end of June every single year and all of this was entirely foreseeable. Those councils which have not set up emergency collection points are complacently predicting everyone’s vote will be delivered by today, but anyone who doesn’t get one should phone their local office on Monday. By when many of them will of course already be wherever they were going that necessitated a postal vote in the first place.