大象传媒

Hi

I haven't received my postal vote. I live in Walthamstow. I called the council today, and they said I would have to collect a new one from their offices, but before 5:15pm on Thursday - and I obviously work all day - hence I arranged a postal vote to begin with. Although they tried to reasure me that someone wouldn't vote on my behalf I'm not quite sure this would be the case. I guess its logged now?

Rachel

I recently moved into RBKC and sent off the form to register.

No acknowledgement or poll card was sent, but when I called up, they were most helpful and gave me both my electoral registration number and my brother's for good measure.

Most of my neighbours - not all - have received their postal vote, but I did not. I have phoned the council, but I keep getting put on hold, then when I did manage to speak to someone they said I was in the wrong department and they would transfer me. I waited and waited and waited and waited, in the end I hung up. I waited fifteen minutes and phoned again. And it all started again, wrong dept`, transferred, waited and waited and waited and waited. In the end I just gave up. And I will "not" be phoning again.

Both my wife and I received our postal votes from Sheffield City Council last Tuesday. We completed and returned them the same day.

I did not apply for a postal vote. I reregistered my electoral list entry four times with Southwark Council, yet did not receive a voting ballot card.
When yesterday I rang to enquire I was told I could go and vote without such a card. When I asked whether there was a risk someone else had taken my card and I'd be told at the polling station my vote had already been used, I was told this was not a risk. I continue to doubt it though.

I re-registered my name on the electoral list in Southwark FOUR times and did receive confirmation, finally. However no polling card arrived so I rang to enquire. I was told I could go without one if I could idetify myself. When I asked if I would be told that someone had already used my vote I was told this was not a risk. I also was told they had experienced problems mailing out polling cards.

I live in Blackpool,
Didn't even know there was a Local Election

I live in Hackney. Haven't received my postal ballot paper yet and have tried calling the helpline many times but it just rings and rings. Unless they get this right, it obviously doesn't save us any time or encourage more people to vote.

IS IT ME?

Why sweat over non-votes, lost votes, bogus votes and stolen votes when the whole business is rotten to its democratic core? In 2005:

LABOUR 35.2% of votes 55.1% of seats
CON. 32.4% of votes 30.7% of seats
L/D 22.0% of votes 9.6% of seats

Meanwhile mighty MIliband is slagging off Mugabe. As I have said before: Disparity begins at home. Never mind; Nick'l fix it.

Because of wanting to make sure voting is done in the most ethical way, I'm concerned about secrecy and privacy at the actual Polling Station. The last time I voted, I was amazed to find that the booth I was sent to was without curtains. In other parts of the Free world they are present. I wrote to the appropriate authorities, but they were adamant that curtains are not required, and when they are present it is at the discretion of the local authority. The officials can see what tickets voters select, if they want to, and can also see the whole selection process taking place. Surely curtains should be hung alongside the voting booths.

No, but what did happen is......I got an email from my council (Rushmoor) last month saying that although I had applied to vote online, such a system was not being implemented this year and consequently I would have to cast my vote in the normal way.

I have never applied to vote online.

Hello

I visited my elderly mother today and discovered she hadn't received her postal ballot paper from LB Havering. She rang them on Saturday but got no response; she hasn't phoned again because there is not now enough time left to be able to return the ballot paper. She is housebound so has effectively been disenfranchised by either LB Havering or the Post Office. All we can do now is to phone LB Havering tomorrow to ensure nobody steals the opportunity to vote on her behalf.

Oh help, I haven't received my ballot yet!!!

Oh no, wait. I live in Scotland and we don't have elections next week.

大象传媒 Please try to be more accurate in your questions. Just because it's happening in England doesn't mean it's happening everywhere else!

CitizenCandyKane, please leave petty nationalist politics at the door.

DON'T KNOCK SCOTLAND

The only thing I have against Scotland, is that when I applied to Alex Salmond for Honorary citizenship, he didn鈥檛 reply. Perhaps he鈥檚 against petty nationalist too!

For the second local election in a row, I have not received my postal ballot. My partner however has received two.

But hey, at least my local Borough Council (Woking) has been magnanimous enough to actually put me on the register this time, last time they couldn't even manage that.

What a joke.

By the time my postal ballot from Haringey Council came through, I'd already left for uni in the North East (the reason why I wanted a postal vote). It was forwarded on to me straight away but has gone missing in the post.

I've reported this to the council and the Met, but unfortunately I can't get new ballot papers as I'd need to come all the way back down to London with photo ID to do so.

The council have also told me I can't now change to a proxy vote as the deadline was last Wednesday. But at that point I didn't know my ballot was missing!

RevolutionBlues

How is it "petty nationalist politics" to point out that there aren't any elections in Scotland this year?

my son isn't able to vote because apparently the council never received his form - although I put him down for a postal vote on the electoral registration form last year, which you would have thought was ok.

By the time I spoke to them the deadline for a proxy vote had passed, as MattBerlin found in post 17.

My son is really annoyed - he can't vote in person because he's away at uni.

I wonder how many more people this has happened to. Our council is Hounslow, by the way.

I received a postal vote today!
Not only was it "too" late. but it was not even mine.......!
(Gateshead Council)