The coming local government elections - for County Councils seem to have been forgotten. We've had no publicity from candidates telling us why we should vote for them, nothing on the web, nothing by snailmail, not even a leaflet through the letter box. Is it like this everywhere?
Do you have a postal vote? I do and find it useful. I wouldn't want to vote any other way. But the instructions seem excessively complicated. Peel off the grey label and stick it on to one enevelope, then peel off the purple label and get it exactly in place in the other envelope. Why not just send the envelopes ready labelled? I wonder if the idea is to weed out not only those who can't see very clearly, but also those lacking in dexterity or the colour-blind. It's only too easy to get one bit of the procedure wrong and perhaps lose the chance for your vote to be counted. Anyone else found this?
