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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Except the polls remained open until 10 PM, which gels with what was said earlier. The ones turned away, presumably, would have been trying to vote after 10 PM.
Times like those, I'm glad I live in a small town, as I generally get to vote within 3 minutes of getting there.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"Yeah that was jsut clarification about the one incident, thinking about it I’m nto surprised I missed it at the time, I was at the count in my own constituency that night and it was a long one.
Personally it’s not super common I go vote person, I try to get a postal vote set up for myself whenever I move, as I always plan to be out campaigning come Election Day.
Edited by Silasw on Jan 31st 2019 at 8:23:00 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe thing with 2010 election and why it sticks for me is that it was changing point because the Labour Government had started under Tony Blair and continued into Gordon Brown
It was like 13 years,and when I heard about polling stations being closed because of surge of people voting I saw it at the time as attempt by the ruling party to cling to power,even if that's what they were attempting they failed,but still,it was utterly shambolic
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI remember the incident.
The reason wasn't because people were trying to vote after 10pm. It was because people had been standing in long, slow-moving queues for more than two hours and the clock ran out on them before they could get into the polling booths to vote.
It happened in quite a lot of areas across the country.
The reason was blamed on unexpectedly high turnout catching polling stations by surprise.
Most of the incidents happened in Labour seats (a couple were Liberal Democrat seats, including Nick Clegg's when he was party leader) and in the Labour marginals that were affected, flips were seen from Labour to Conservative that year due to 'lower Labour turnout' (higher overall turnout) — all affected constituencies flipped back to Labour in the 2015 election.
We should discuss this properly on the UK thread, but very briefly:
That really isn't what happened at all. In fact the international monitoring (the UK was monitored for the first time in 2010) was very high on praise as to how UK elections were carried out that year, despite the polling issues that hit some areas.
There was an investigation
into what happened. The law on registration for voting in GEs changed in 2006, so the 2010 was the first GE under the new law. It allowed voters to register after the GE had been called right up until two weeks before the election. As a result, 1.3 million more people registered than expected, catching polling stations by surprise with an unexpectedly high turnout. On top of that, there were local elections taking place a week before the GE in certain areas, which further increased turnout. And on top of even that, the UK engaged in US-style televised leader debates for the very first time.
In short, certain heavily populated metropolitan areas and areas with high student numbers found themselves unexpectedly inundated with unusually high political engagement that caught then off-guard and unprepared.
This kind of problem is unusual for the UK, but it sounds like this sort of thing is not only more common in the US but may even be systemic?
Edited by Wyldchyld on Jan 31st 2019 at 9:28:19 AM
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.So it would seem Evil Turtle doesn't want people to be able to vote easily on election day.
Gee, I wonder why a reactionary prick wouldn't want that.
As for electronic voting, we do have it India, and the reason is the same that HailMuffins pointed out for it's introduction in Brazil - cut down on corruption and booth capturing (a polite euphemism for goons showing up at the voting booth and telling you to vote for X Candidate, or else and then whisking the ballot box away to fudge the votes).
It should come as no surprise that the INC (India's version of the GOP - it nominally puts on a progressive face for the cameras, but is savagely reactionary in almost every other way) has been losing election after election since the Electronic Voting Machines came into widespread use - they can't fudge the ballots anymore, and they don't like it.
However, it does come with something called a VVPAT - Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail. Which allows you to check if your ballot was properly counted and not fudged post drop.
And as it turns out, only the losing party complains about Electronic Voting. Sour Grapes and Moral Myopia galore. Fortunately, the Election Commission back home tells them to get bent every time they complain.
Edited by TechPriest90 on Jan 31st 2019 at 4:16:53 AM
I hold the secrets of the machine.So apparently Trump refuses to even look at any bill that doesn't contain wall funding.
Again. Not that this is at all surprising, but it does show how he's learned absolutely nothing from the last time. And unless even more GOPers switch aisles to vote with Democrats, we're headed for another shutdown in two weeks. More suffering for an ineffective vanity project, joy.
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That's because they don't care about all of that at all. The object of Power is Power, after all. It's a nice polite facade to to keep gullible people from peering too closely.
The GOP has amply demonstrated over the past few years that it's not interested in Democracy or anything approaching fair and representative government.
Edited by TechPriest90 on Jan 31st 2019 at 4:25:34 AM
I hold the secrets of the machine.

try this one then
have a listen and have a link to my discord server