Been to vote!

so excited....!

I kinda was too - first time voting in a UK election - but oh the queue! Seems kinda odd only being able to go to a single allocated polling booth to place your vote. Now to wait for the result....

not been yet - going after work.
tomorrow will be an interesting day.

The queue was too long this morning but just been...and it was still busy. Been using the same polling station for the last 15 years and this is the busiest I have ever seen it...looks like a lot more interest this time around.

Will be going on my way home.

Later, I'm planning on being at the thing at the QEH to see the early results coming in.

It would be nice to see some SE1ers there.

Voting in person is so 20th century ;0) Going postal is the new black.

Queued for about 25 mins this morning to vote. I've never seen it so busy either, normally just wander straight in. Can't complain about voter apathy this year!

Ivanhoe wrote:

Voting in person is so 20th century ;0) Going postal is the new black.

Going postal ... in SE1??? Hope you sent it in triplicate by first class, registered and by courier.

Hah - @Ivanhoe - I thought about registering for a postal vote, but after reading the Mandela Way/Royal Mail threads decided a queue was the lesser of two evils... Wonder what time we'll see meaningful results (ie not just the first few electorates)?

I voted earlier at the John Harvard library.

I was very annoyed to be accosted directly outside by a Labour canvasser. As I walked in I was asked for my Polling Card number, which I gave, because I initially thought she was one of the polling station officers. She wrote this diligently on a clip board.

I was then asked who I planned to vote for... at which point I realised they were not any sort of official, they would never ask the question. I very politely told them that it is a private ballot and my business only. I didnt think it was correct they should write down the voting tendencies on their records of each voter / voting number.

They then proceeding to thrust some literature towards me as I tried to walk past and into the polling station.

For what its worth, I've got no connection or affiliation with any party.