Are you all taking a pen?

Paranoia is taking over? Also heard they have exact copies of your voting paper that they can alter then swap them at the count! Country has gone insane over this vote - hopefully there will be as much interest in the next general election

 

No. But I will volunteer for all the other free kicks.

 

I can't stop crying with laughter over this. I just spent the last 10 minutes desperately trying to find a gif of someone trying to use a rubber and invariably ripping a hole in the paper. Alas, it wasn't to be!

Here's a convo from Facebook earlier:

 

All I'm saying is this, at our polling station they had two receptacles one for yes and the other had incinerator scrubbed out and 'no' crayoned over it, the woman said it helped collate stuff faster , but I'm not sure!

 

I even saw a post yesterday saying they were voting over two days and remain should wait and vote on Friday to prevent queues

 

They were festooning our polling station with Union Jacks - you have to wonder...

 

This reads like it comes from the Daily Mash:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/8203-t...u-referendum/story-29436711-detail/story.html

One pensioner from Patchway, who would not be named, said she returned home to get a Biro "disgusted" at the thought of using a pencil.

The 80-year-old said she had gone down to vote at Coniston Community Centre and stepped into the booth to discover a pencil.

She said: "This vote is so important, that I cannot believe it is done in pencil.

"I ended up having to go home to get a Biro pen so they could not rub my vote out.

"I don't trust anyone in politics so how do I know they won't try to do that?

"I am just appalled that this has happened at such an important vote – this is not just any old general election, it is so important and we are using pencils.

"I just went into the booth, used my biro and came out and told them."

 

What's she been using for the last 60 years?

 

She hasn't given a damn for 60 years as her vote didn't directly send the bugger Pavel from next door back where he came from.

Or so she thought...

 

I wish I could have been there to walk in holding a giant bottle of tippex whilst giving her a sly wink.

 

Pavel the Polish pilot who flew Spitfires in World war 2?

 

Just popping up to vote leave. If my preferred side lose then it will probably be my last visit to a polling booth. what would be the point!

 

In all seriousness, I rang Electoral Services at the Council this morning to complain about the polling station at the Church of the Nazarene on Sheffield Road.

The whole building is covered in Union Jack bunting, which is surely a little inappropriate given so much of the referendum coverage and marketing imagery shows a Union Jack opposing an EU flag as representing leave/remain respectively. It's the equivalent of draping it in red flags with roses on during General Election day.

I told the lady at the Council, who replied that she's "not sure what we can do about it". Erm... ask the people working at the polling station/church caretaker to take it down?

I haven't been back down there but I don't hold my breath...

 

I started worrying when I saw this book on the desk in the polling station




That and the fact our returning officer is called Robert Mugabe

 

hehe

 

Shove a suit on or something that looks 'official' and go down there. Make up an official sounding title for yourself and tell them to take it down

You did at least take a picture of it right? You could make a fortune selling that to the papers.

 

To elect a government to run the country. Just like the current one does, like it or not.

 

I ought to didn't I, just cross out the 'Exam Invigilator' bit on my old Council badge!

I wasn't thinking that sharply this morning. But going head off back there now and see if it's still up

 

I am now, and I'm telling everyone why. Our lass will go fcking crackers, excellent cheers.

 

Really?