Half-way through polling day.

James Cousins — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:34:47 +0000

A fairly brisk start to voting in my patch, certainly higher than past European elections, but it died off considerably during the day and I hear that other places didn’t even get the good start!

Of course, voting does tend to reflect travel patterns, so it picking up again with the school run and the start of the evening rush hour.

We’ve also seen the first sign of opposition activity as Labour start to deliver their eve of poll leaflets!

If you’ve not voted yet you have until 10pm when polls will close. If you are in Wandsworth and don’t know where your polling station is you can find it at http://tr.im/wwvote You don’t need your polling card to vote.

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Polling Day: a few hours in…

James Cousins — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:04:46 +0000

Polls have been open since 7am and trade has been brisk (though getting quieter now commuters have commuted). What’s more the trade has been friendly, the Conservative vote is clearly motivated.

Labour don’t seem to be running a full polling day operation and haven’t put people outside polling stations. This is actually a real disappointment.

First, in one of those oddities of politics tellers from the parties (the people hanging around outside polling stations) work together on election day. We aren’t there to try and persuade you to vote for us. Instead we try and gather electoral roll numbers so, if you are a supporter, we know we don’t need to remind you to vote later. Obviously it makes sense for the tellers to help each other doing this.

Second, it’s actually really nice to have someone to chat with during the quiet periods!

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