Election Day!
It's local elections in the UK today, including the London mayoral elections. A few years ago the government decide to allowed people to vote by post. It'd always been possible for people living overseas etc. but nowadays anyone can opt to vote by post. Which is great. Getting down to the polling station before or after work on a Thursday can be a bit of a pain and you normally have to queue with everyone else who's going before or after work. The postal vote is really easy. They send you a voting slip, a couple of envelopes you have to put inside each other and you post it back to them prepaid.
Of course, it does mean you can have widespread election fraud. But I think that's a small price to pay.
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Of course, that always supposes that you have a postbox in handy proximity. Luckily, my local postbox is about 150 yards away, next to the pub, local shop, chinese and community centre (which doubles as the polling station).
The Harrington household has 3 registered voters. It turns out we voted for a different candidates from top three parties for our ward. If we had discussed this beforehand we could have 'paired' and remained at home...the result would have been the same.
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