I will vote this evening. Three young men in this house are voting in their first general election. One was really keen. He walked down just after 7am. Naughty lad lied to the chap with the blue rosette when he asked how he had voted.
I went to vote on my way home from work. The polling station was surprisingly busy for a small town. They had had 55 voters through the door in 35 minutes!
We will stroll over together later this morning- MP is a foregone conclusion but the local council election could be interesting and I'm interested in them having had a very good meeting re the charity I'm on yesterday.
This is a safe Conservative seat, unless UKIP, heaven forbid, get in. But the council elections are more open, I think.
They put up a little polling station at the top of our road - all very convenient! So now that it has stopped raining, I'll wander up there. In a minute or two....
Voted by 7.15. 11 had voted by then which is pretty good going around here. Very complicated though. Three voting papers in different colours and different numbers of candidates and parties on each one. Dyslexic DH had problems so I reckon others will.
We just got back from nipping to the library to vote, I was very surprised when OH said he'd come with me as he refused to vote in the last two elections (whats the point they are all the same) , when we came out I said I bet you just spoilt your ballot paper , he said no I just voted for the one whose name I liked . He did as he said it .
Just done it. Polling clerk said there had been a steady flow of people coming through all day and I could see that all the ballot boxes were quite full.
I remember the loud hailers...... I was once a candidate and I thunk I recall that if a mark was made clearly inside the box and there were no words or names,then it counted. But all the candidates had to agree - I did see some naughty words