RHP General Election

Originally posted by divegeester
Please what? People should get themselves organised. They had all day to vote, how hard can it be.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Typically Tory viewpoint, of course -- it's the people's fault -- for being sick, for being old -- cut public services now, damn their eyes. Three cheers for Trident!

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
The system wasn't equipped to deal with the high turnout -- piss-poor organisation that you blame on people being 'disorganised'. Typically Tory viewpoint, of course -- it's the people's fault -- for being sick, for being old -- cut public services now, damn their eyes. Three cheers for Trident!

Anyway, you're in for some interesting times.

Edit ...[text shortened]... nline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/05/07/voters-furious-at-being-turned-away-91466-26395061/

Originally posted by divegeester
Good grief get some perspective! What has someone being sick or trident got to do with what time a person CHOOSES to vote - ever heard of voting by proxy or postal voting.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Why has it never happened before, this problem?

Originally posted by divegeester
Who knows. The system has work fine in the past, what's changed?

I was a bit late registering my new address, so drove a 130 mile round trip to vote after work. I can understand that there are people who had a lot more serious problems than that attempting to vote though. There were no queues at the polling station for me.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
You tell me.

Originally posted by lausey
I was a bit late registering my new address, so drove a 130 mile round trip to vote after work. I can understand that there are people who had a lot more serious problems than that attempting to vote though. There were no queues at the polling station for me.

Originally posted by divegeester
Well there we have it, nobody knows what went wrong with the system that has worked perfectly well in the past (except it must be piss poor organisaton), and that it had absolutely nothing to do with a relatively very small increase in the amount of voters choosing to turnout late.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Actually, there seems to be more to it than that, as shown by the article I put up, but you don't seem to be bothered to read up about it.

One point of interest is that the traditionally apathetic student voting population woke up this time but were unprepared for the whole thing. This slowed down the process causing some people, who did have voting passes, to miss the boat.

Originally posted by divegeester
I'm working and dipping in and out, so not had time to read that article.

Indeed voting timing patterns changed in few places for a yet to be determined reason.

So we have a hung parliament. Can the hanging be done with drawing and quartering this time? I think that would definitely be a change I would vote for.

Is there any advantage of doing this in a working day? Doing it on weekends allows everybody to plan their voting properly.

It's also ridiculous to stop people from voting when they are already queuing to vote. Even if it takes a few more hours or even another day, so be it. It's only a problem for the television broadcasts.

"Sorry, 10pm, try again next time" What?

Originally posted by Palynka
Is there any advantage of doing this in a working day? Doing it on weekends allows everybody to plan their voting properly.