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Originally Posted by Angua
For those of you who are going to vote at a polling station the gang of people at the door with different coloured rosettes on are NOT going to mug you, they will ask for your poll number. ALL this will tell them is that you have visited the polling station, they will not even be able to tell if you have voted let alone who for.
Where it will help you is if you have told any canvassers that have contacted you and you said you will support their candidate they will not come knocking on your door later in the day to remind you to vote (it also explains the nagging leaflet on your doorstep when you get in from work). |
Ah, a personal bugbear of mine. I absolutely hate the fact that the party activists are standing there to hassle me on my way out of the polling station. I prefer my vote to be absolutely anonymous in every way, which includes them not knowing if I've even been there.
Where I used to live there were always a couple of old codgers (one Labour, one Tory) sat there with their rosettes on, asking everybody their name on the way out and giving no indication that this information was voluntary and not part of the electoral process. I always declined to give them any information, much to their immense surprise. I think they had forgotten that they are not part of the electoral process either.