Is 15 hours long enough to vote?

[R1Geezer]

Perlease, it's open from 7 to 10 and they turn up too late? Sorry if you are that thick you don't deserve a vote! Kin clueless, you couldn't make it up!

[ummmm]

Depends where he is working. He moves around the country. Tonight he got home just gone 7, had a cup of tea and bath and then went to vote about 8.30. Luckily for him...there was no queues.

Obviously not the same in other places.

[slinkycat]

Why should he apply for a postal vote if he knew he would be able to get to the polling station before the 10pm deadline?
If it says voting til 10pm, then thats what should be available.

[ummmm]

Because it's not normal. Leaving time is but he's usually home earlier. He got to vote....but there must be plenty of people in the country who have to do silly hours sometimes. Nobody expected the queues to be as they were....

R1 doesn't agree with the postal vote either.

[jno]

Rosetta, Gromit's listed some of the queuing problems. You can find others in news reports, plus reports of polling places running out of ballot papers. If there were three-hour queues, and they couldn't be cleared before closing time, then people must indeed have turned up with three hours to go. Turning up three hours before closing time doesn't make you clueless. It's not the voters' fault.

[BertiWooster]

The polling stations closed at 2200hrs - if I turned up at 2100 hrs , I certainly would expect to be able to cast my vote - why shouldn't I

The trouble here is that the authorites failed to anticipate that it was extremely likely that more people would want to vote this time round and more importantly , throughout the day , right up to the last hour .

It would appear that common sense failed to kick in here in that , they could have said, ok it is 2145hrs - if you still wish to vote come inside and then we will lock the door .
After that point , fair enough any more people turning up - hard luck

[jno]

I quite agree, Berti, though with the proviso that I'd make the cut-off time about 10pm: if that was the advertised time, then you should be able to vote if you've turned up. The problem is the authorities announced opening hours they weren't able to honour. In the interests of democracy (it's only once in five years, after all), they should stay open long enough for everyone who arrived on time to cast their vote.

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Obviously all the queues were in old Labour seats........'keep them outside lads ...shut the doors theres too many voting Tory'