Make over £200 on the election?

lynnemcf

tara747 wrote: »

Just home, almost £200 earned. Lovely jubbly

Where were you counting Tara? Are votes still being counted???

crazyposhgal

donnaessex wrote: »

Wrong wrong wrong. I've been poll clerk, then presiding officer for over 10 years (first year off!) and I've always done the count. Often its a 24 hour job but sometimes you get to leave at around 2am.

It depends where you are if you can do both. Different countys have different rules. At mine you cant do both as you have to be at the count for 10pm so you cant do both.

funnyguy

zzzz.this thread should close now...got home 5.45 a.m..bed 6.15a.m..UP AT 8.15a.m for work..as I was saying..zzzzzzzzzzz

crystal9

hmm not a good result think we're in the poo now

Giggles_Fairy

Where I am there is a polling station every two minutes. Driving a 5 minute drive I saw at least 5. Is this out of the ordinary or something? Im struggling to understand how there could be lines of 100 people in places, I can only assume they didnt have as many polling stations as we did?

Mihangel

Giggles_Fairy wrote: »

Where I am there is a polling station every two minutes. Driving a 5 minute drive I saw at least 5. Is this out of the ordinary or something? Im struggling to understand how there could be lines of 100 people in places, I can only assume they didnt have as many polling stations as we did?

That was the same situation were i live however each polling station has its own clientel and if your names not on that list you have to find the correct polling station. hope that makes sense

tara747

lynnemcf wrote: »

Where were you counting Tara? Are votes still being counted???

Belfast. The count's all done (it finished quite early on).

Clowance

We got a flat rate for counting of £60 and it went on until 4.45am from 9.45pm - 7 hours. Grrrrrrr! It took this long because they introduced a new method of validating the number of votes in each ballot box with the poll clerks list by counting each box individually, this took three hours so we didn't even start the sorting into parties until about 1am. Shan't do this again, rubbish pay for night work.
Oh and to add insult to injury - "refreshments will be provided" turned out to be a bottle of water, there was tea and coffee but when we tried to have some we we told that it was not for us!

tara747

Clowance, that's terrible!!!!

donquine

Any tips for signing up for the next one? For those of you who were successful, how far in advance did you put your name down to count? Also, were you a council employee? Thanks