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[emony]

Note to self: Remember to vote.

Note to everyone else: OMG REMEMBER TO VOTE!!!

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[odycee.livejournal.com]

OMG DON'T FORGET.

I'm going to be going quite late. I'll go after I've been to see to the horses. I love going back into my old junior school to vote - everything's so small!

[emony.livejournal.com]

I'll go on my way home from work. I'll probably be standing in the queue with everyone else who's going after work, but there you go. It's my first time voting in my new constituency, and it's been ages anyway, as I've had a postal vote for the last four years while I've been away at Uni. Should be good though :) Yay elections. I'm going to try to get some sleep when I get home, and then get up for a few hours from 11pm to 1 or 2am to see some of the results coming in. We'll see how successful that plan is.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try to get some sleep when I get home, and then get up for a few hours from 11pm to 1 or 2am to see some of the results coming in. We'll see how successful that plan is.

That was going to be my plan too but it clearly won't work as I probably won't get in until about half eight what with the whole voting and horse thing.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Assuming my voting doesn't take too long, I should be home by about 6.30pm, maybe 7pm if there is a queue, so hopefully I should be able to get a few hours of quality sleeping in.

[traceace.livejournal.com]

OK! I'll vot--

Oh wait.

I'm not from England.

-sad-

[emony.livejournal.com]

Or Scotland, Northern Ireland, or Wales, I presume. But you can follow the joy of our elections via that there interweb *g* I recommend the BBC website (http://news.bbc.co.uk).

[traceace.livejournal.com]

I actually am going to keep up with it because I have a geeky love of politics.

Have fun voting. ;)

[emony.livejournal.com]

As do I :)

I will! :D

[niennah.livejournal.com]

Vote Beeblebrox.

[emony.livejournal.com]

:P

[xochiquetzl]

I'll be watching. Good luck, or whatever you say about election day.

[emony.livejournal.com]

I think good luck works :)

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

Hope all goes well.

BTW, you get a holiday because you have to vote? Or do you have to go work and vote?

Here we always have elections on Sundays.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

We have to go to work and vote, but the polls are open from 7am to 10pm, so there's really no excuse for not going. I'll be going after work, for example. We always have elections on Thursday. I don't know why. I wish we got a day off to vote! Someone was saying on a blog just the other day that turnout would be dramatically increased if they let everyone have a day off as long as they went and voted, and I think they're right. When I am Prime Minister .. ;)

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

I've just remembered that many years ago, when democracy was new, elections were held in work days and people had like 6 hours off so that they could vote. Then they moved them to Sunday.

10 pm? Whoa. That means results will come in late, right? I wanted to check news an everything, but as I'm an hour ahead guess I'll check first thing in the morning.

[emony.livejournal.com]

I think ours have been on Thursdays for years and years and years. That's just how it's done. There's probably some deep historical reason for it, but I don't know what it is. Might look in to it tonight.

Yes, the results come in over night. Mostly between 1am and 4am BST. By about 2 or 3am, you can pretty much see how things are going to go, especially if the Labour majority is as large as it has been recently. Checking in the morning is probably the best option. I know I will be.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Some people get a holiday on election day, like school children if their school is a polling station. ;)

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

Ah, the wonders of being 8 ;)

[celestialwillow.livejournal.com]

Waiting until John gets back from work. It's in some church hall that I've not managed to locate yet. I still don't feel very local.

[emony.livejournal.com]

Mine's in a church hall too, but fortunately the hall is just across the road and along a bit from where I live, so it should be fairly easy to work out where to go. I was hoping there'd be big signs to point the way, but I didn't see anything when I went past this morning.

Maybe voting will make you feel a bit more involved and invested in the area.

[celestialwillow.livejournal.com]

Maybe voting will make you feel a bit more involved and invested in the area.

I doubt that voting will make any difference to feeling attached to Cambridge. It won't make my friends and family any closer or remove the annoying posh-student element!

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Done the deed, we're on for continued Labour majority in this seat, but still...

Oh, and I saw this and thought of you! :P

[emony.livejournal.com]

As have I. We're a marginal though, so it's all very exciting down here.

Hah! That picture is marvellous *g* So appropriate!

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

What's marginal? Sounds very ugly ;)

[emony.livejournal.com]

Marginal just means that the gap between the two (or three in some cases) main contenders is quite tight, so the seat is more likely to change from one party to another. For instance, my seat (Surrey South West) is a marginal seat because there are only 861 votes between the Conservative candidate who held the seat last time and the Lib Dem candidate who came second last time, so we're very hopeful that the Lib Dem will win this time.

[nausica2.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Who has won?

And.. congratulations? About Tony being re-elected I guess. There wasn't any other choice.

[emony.livejournal.com]

In my seat, the Tory. *sigh* :(