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PS – of course a further complication is in those seats that also have Council elections on the same day. The Council ballot papers have to be separated out and validated before the GE count can begin.
Will – night shift workers are people who regularly work nights and have adjusted their sleep patterns accordingly. My understanding, as mentioned by Mike Smith – was that the people doing the count, and the representatives of the parties present etc, were not normally night workers.
Regarding the London stock market – maybe – but there are other stock markets which due to different time zones are open during our night-time when the count is happening, so I am not convinced by your argument.
If it was arranged so that the count was done during the day, then yes, a Thursday poll would not be convenient and it would be best to hold the voting on Monday to Wednesdays only. I think this is worth looking into further.
It seems yet another example of modern life being over-pressurised in unnecessary ways. Add on all the people who stay up most of the night to see the results come in, then go to work on far too little sleep and I think there is a definite economic downside.
“Postal voting is the problem with over 20% of voters having a postal vote. What amazes me is that people get a postal vote because they, supposedly, would find it difficult to get to the polling station.
Yet, they are entitled to deliver their ballot papers to the polling station right up to the close of poll.
The solution seems simple to me. Put a deadline on receipt of postal votes at the polling station – say 5pm. They could then be validated before the close of poll and the count start as soon as the ballot boxes reach the venue of the count.”
This sounds an excellent idea. I’m all for people being allowed to take postal ballots to the polling station, as voters may distrust the post and prefer to ask a friend or relative to take the ballot in person, but giving until 5pm or so would allow this without delaying the count.
The postal vote system should only have been allowed for vulnerable and elderly people and those with long term disabilities not everyone and the date of birth and signature and a password should also have been used in place as a check to check out bona fida voters to ghost voters.
I would hope that in Tower Hamlets if the result is close that the ballot papers will be looked at strongly
I would hate to see labour win the election based on fraud as I don’t think the polls lie. I am expecting a hung parliament .
[...] And then there is the mapping of constituencies to regions. The only thing I could find in Britain’s official statistic was for the previous election, and the borders changed since then, so I had to resort to scraping them off this Web page. [...]
Anthony Wells, Would you be covering the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly elections next year?
Anthony its probably time to update the map on the NI region.
“Anthony Wells, Would you be covering the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly elections next year?”
Yep with 2007 notional results for the new 2011 boundaries!
Good news, do you know when that will be ready?
Most parties have already selecting their candidates now. I know Plaid Cymru will be finished by the end of the month for example.
With all the news going on now like Ron Davies apparently standing in Caerphilly for Plaid this is big news!
Thanks.
Those people who don’t know the new SP constituenty names and shapes will be quite surprised I think
Good to keep the forum talking…..
Funny how this page comes up when you log on to the “guide” section of UKPR. Means you see it all the time for no particular reason.
Any news of when the new pages for next eyars elections are going to be ready?
Most parties have practically finished selecting their candidates by now.
http://achangeofpersonnel.blogspot.com/2010/07/who-wants-to-be-assembly-member.html
New ITV Wales/ Yougov Welsh poll
Headline figures
Labour-39%, Plaid Cymru-23%, Conservative-22%, Lib Dem-10% (Lowest ever poll rating for Welsh Assembly election), Others-6%
http://itvwales.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/yougov-poll-results-show-support-for-lib-dems-is-still-falling/
Central Ward is in East Worthing, as are Broadwater, Gaisford, Offington, and Selden.
However, Central Ward is in the Worthing West constituency while the others are in Worthing East & Shoreham.