Voting whilst in a care home?

pebbles88

Hello,

Have searched but can't find a clear answer.

My Mum has gone into a care home, we normally do our votes by post. Today the letter asking to confirm who will be resident in our address in oct 2012.

Do we leave Mum on there, or does she have to be registered at the care home address? We are still using our address as i'm dealing with her mail/other bits etc.

amyloofoo

Contact your local council - I'd think they'd say that the rules are the same as they are for students, etc. She'd be fine to register from your address as long as this is still considered to be her 'permanent' address and she's not seperately registered at the care home.

Torry_Quine

If she is a permanent resident of the care home she will be registered there. The home will get a form as you did to complete with the residents and they can also make sure she gets a postal vote. My great aunt is in a home and this is what happens. If you leave her on your form this will confuse matters as well as you having to take voting papers in to her.

Very early in the year for the letter confirming who is at the address. Ours usually late August/September.

Ames

I've had mine with a deadline to return sometime in the first week of July.

AFAIK you can be registered to vote at more than one address (ie students) but can only use one of the votes.

pebbles88

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Very early in the year for the letter confirming who is at the address. Ours usually late August/September.

it's because there are extra elections going on in our area in November

Owain_Moneysaver

You can be registered at more than one address but can only vote once in each election.

So if you are registered in Ashire and Eshire, you can vote in elections for both Ashire and Eshire County Councils on the same day, but you can only use one vote for the UK Parliament.

podperson

She can be registered at either as long as she only votes once. If the care home is her permanent address now she might be better changing it over to there, then her form or postal vote will go there and the staff are usually experienced in giving the residents a hand with them if they need it. I've worked a few elections in areas with care homes and with most of them the staff would ferry down in groups any of the residents who wanted to vote in person.

pebbles88

podperson wrote: »

She can be registered at either as long as she only votes once. If the care home is her permanent address now she might be better changing it over to there, then her form or postal vote will go there and the staff are usually experienced in giving the residents a hand with them if they need it. I've worked a few elections in areas with care homes and with most of them the staff would ferry down in groups any of the residents who wanted to vote in person.

we've done ours by post for a long time now, so i'll take the forms to her, get her to pick, and post it off.

thanks for all the replies.