Unable to organise an Election in a Democracy

lostinrates

PC_Gabriel_Kent wrote: »

Vote by post then, that way you never need to worry about what time polls are open. :T:grouphug::wall::drool::cheesy:

This is a partial solution I agree. I think the system is so exposed to fraud though that I wol like to see substantial changes. This year my dh took the day off...well..worked from home, for the first time. He usually postal votes or votes by proxi This election its highly likely people were undecided right to the very last minute.

Spartacus_Mills

kennyboy66 wrote: »

People in polling stations near me turned up at 7pm to be told to come back in an hour as they had run out of ballot slips.
People turned up just after 9pm at other stations who had also ran out, by which time it was too late to get any more.

Disenfranchised themselves - what a load of !!!!!!.

Plenty of people disenfranchised themselves.

Polling stations near you are not indicative of the country as a whole and neither are the ones near me where people turned up at the last minute hoping to vote and whining because there was a queue. However people did disenfranchise themselves.

Spartacus_Mills

PC_Gabriel_Kent wrote: »

Vote by post then, that way you never need to worry about what time polls are open. :T:grouphug::wall::drool::cheesy:

It works for Labour :rotfl::rotfl:

barrymoney

They should tell people to vote between 7am and 7pm unless they absolutely can not. This leaves 3 hours to deal with those who cant / stragglers.
Still dont get why we had the problems this time, the turnout was only up 5%.

misskool

Seriously? Sometimes I'm on a train to work at 6:56am and don't get home until 8:30pm. Not everyone has a lovely short day at work.

Not everyone can control the circumstances/situations of their day so they can make it at a time when the polling station won't be so busy.

Count_Dante

kriss_boy wrote: »

On the news a lady complained "I've been here since 9.20pm"....

Er.... get out your bed in the morning you lazy muppet...

Cobblers to that. If she had said "I've been here since 9.55pm", fine, but turning up 40 minutes before the end she should have the right to vote.

Clearly a foul up of enormous proportions has happened this time. I can't believe there was so little slack in the system it couldn't take another 5% turnout - they must know the staffing and infrastructure resources required at each polling station. As for not having enough ballot papers, when the maximum potential number of ballot papers required is known beforehand just beggars belief. The culprit should be legitimately executed.

BTW, when I turned up to vote at my polling place at 9pm I was the only voter there. I'm sure it was like that in most other polling stations around the country.