Nope, as long as you are outside the polling station it's fine. Did it for Labour during the Mayoral election.
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UK General Election - 8th June 2017 |OT| - The Red Wedding
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Nope, as long as you are outside the polling station it's fine. Did it for Labour during the Mayoral election.
Asking how someone voted is fine.
Asking for their votes generally isn't. Polling stations are meant to be completely devoid of any campaign material that could sway the vote.
Oh, okay.
I wonder how many people will turn up and say "Where's the box for Theresa May!?"
Huw_Dawson
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This is what I'll be doing after work (albeit for Labour).
BossDarkseid
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Well, all the people on my Uni course voted Labour.
It's what you'd hope, and it at least softens the inevitable disappointment that at least I'm on a course with good people.
It's what you'd hope, and it at least softens the inevitable disappointment that at least I'm on a course with good people.
scotcheggz
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Done my duty for the glorious Caroline Lucas (peace be upon her).
Psychotext
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So show him the costings and tell him to get his ass down to the polling station.
But yeah, it's indicative of the effect the media has had this election.
Pretty much, which is why if safe seats start swinging then you stay up all night.
Randy Lanzarote
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As Huw said, these are volunteer tellers getting an idea of who has voted so later today they'll be knocking on doors to get non-voters out. I had a Labour volunteer at my polling station this morning ask me the same. (Cardiff Central)
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Usually. No point turning up to a safe seat.
Well that's quite worrying. I've just had exit pollsters at my polling station.
I live in Liverpool.
Stead Fast
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Where in Liverpool, might I ask?
Show him this:
Plus it's been "endorsed" by a lot of 200 odd economists.
There is also the IFS report to consider, which definitely had a negative headline but seems to be a little more nuanced in detail. (I haven't attempted to understand this detail myself, but there was an interesting post on it earlier in the thread:
They will be attending the exact same seats they attended in 2015. They then compare the results against their 2015 results to see the trends and extrapolate from that.
So, if they are in Liverpool now, they were there in 2015.
And this is why the Tories will likely win a huge majority tonight, I'm afraid.
That said, I voted for the Tories in 2015 (I fucking wish I hadn't now though) but didn't make that same mistake this election.
IdreamofHIME
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Election day is like the Twilight zone on news channels.
For the last few months nothing but election and for the next few months coming it'll be the same...but today? Phil Collins falling over is the most interesting thing they can find to talk about.
For the last few months nothing but election and for the next few months coming it'll be the same...but today? Phil Collins falling over is the most interesting thing they can find to talk about.
Captain Skeleton
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Still think voting day should be a national holiday.
Psychotext
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I still don't like it. I don't think anyone wearing a party rosette should be anywhere near a polling station.
If we're doing family anecdotes:
One brother has always voted Labour; the other reads The Sun and has never voted in an election before and, on advice from iSideWith, is voting Labour; my sister-in-law who's never voted before is also voting Labour; my mother reads The Daily Mail but soured on Theresa May in a big way in the run-up and is voting Labour.
My dad was a civil servant for four decades, during which time he always voted Labour. On my twenty-fourth birthday, he gave me a copy of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (a socialist novel from early twentieth century, for those not in the know) because it influenced him so much when he was that age. Come Ed Miliband, he voted Tory. This election, he plans to do the same. He hates Corbyn with a visceral passion and sees May as the lesser of two evils.
One brother has always voted Labour; the other reads The Sun and has never voted in an election before and, on advice from iSideWith, is voting Labour; my sister-in-law who's never voted before is also voting Labour; my mother reads The Daily Mail but soured on Theresa May in a big way in the run-up and is voting Labour.
My dad was a civil servant for four decades, during which time he always voted Labour. On my twenty-fourth birthday, he gave me a copy of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (a socialist novel from early twentieth century, for those not in the know) because it influenced him so much when he was that age. Come Ed Miliband, he voted Tory. This election, he plans to do the same. He hates Corbyn with a visceral passion and sees May as the lesser of two evils.
QuicheFontaine
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Uhh, wow. Can you not post gifs of terrorists in the thread please?
Darkstorne
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Wouldn't change anything regarding turnout. If anything it's an excuse to get wasted the night before since there's no work tomorrow, leading to staying in bed with a hangover =P
Yeah I've showed him the costings and trying to get him to come with me to vote. I'm sure he will. I highly highly doubt he will vote Tory, but even so... Not reassuring
Little Old Man
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What frustrates me (and I'm not having a go at your dad) is that is that generally people with such views never say for example "well I don't agree that Corbyn has fully costed his manifesto becaus the IFS says that the costings aren't quite right, they're not going to achieve that much via Corporation tax increases, and they say that more than 5% of the population could see tax increases. Though at least they've provided some costings for us to go on unlike the Tory party."
Instead it will be based entirely on something seen in a right wing paper or on social media.
Camper Van Beethoven
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Turnout would be lower. People would do fun things instead.
Darkstorne
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My thought process regarding the manifesto was, if Labour can only achieve HALF of what they're promising, that's still a significantly better outcome than anything May is offering.
You do know they're not allowed to talk about it today right? The most they're allowed to do is show people going to to the polls, and saying 'people are going to the polls today'.
The floodgates will open again when the polling booths shut.
autumnleaf
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That isn't how I remember it...I recall last time they called it that the Conservatives would gain a majority or close enough to it and a lot of people questioned it and assumed it must be wrong but it was proven correct.
Huw_Dawson
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Wavertree (Broad Green to be more specific)
RE: pswii60 I don't recall them being there last time and I went to vote around the same time as now. Though if Labour throw away a 24k vote margin here, that would be nothing short of unmitigated disaster.
Daffy Duck
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By the next election we need a tinder style voting app to get youngsters voting. Just a picture of the local MP (or the leader should May have her way with this team May style BS) and a swipe left or right to vote.
QuicheFontaine
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Huw_Dawson
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They're likely trying to track how Labour's vote is going in their safe seats, as it helps build a representative forecast.
There is exactly no chance of any real damage being done to any Liverpool seat. You might see a recovery amongst the no-hopers that puts the LDs in second place in a few of them, but Liverpool and Manchester are safe-as-houses Labour and probably always will be.
Your neck of the wood is Lab/LD competitive at council level but the actual constituencies are nearly impossible to shift.
Toytown Assassin
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It had them on 316 and they got 331. It was quite good but not spot on.
JonathanEx
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Has anyone been exitpolled before? Not in a 'oh I don't believe it's big because I haven't been', absolutely not, just out of curiosity.
Of note my polling station has our first tellers in years - in my few years here and our many votes for local/election/referendum/PCC, don't think I've seen one. But as my seat is Bennett for the greens, tellers there throughout the day.
Of note my polling station has our first tellers in years - in my few years here and our many votes for local/election/referendum/PCC, don't think I've seen one. But as my seat is Bennett for the greens, tellers there throughout the day.
JonathanEx
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They got the percentage of vote share bang on - but the seats associated from that slightly wrong.
Elaugaufein
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You just need to work out a reason why parties that wouldn't benefit from a higher youth vote would go along with this.
The poorer and more marginalised you are, the more likely you are to have to work on national holidays.
Shelf stacker at Tesco? You're fucking working Bank Holidays you prole scum.
Middle Manager at some swanky financial firm? Have the day off, and don't forget, vote Tory.
There are many more sensible ideas to make it easier to vote without advantaging the Tories even more.
Stead Fast
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Huh, weird then, I had for a second thought it may have been Wirral West since they flipped between Red and Blue over the past three elections, but no I'd have no clue as to why they'd be there today. I never see anyone when I vote, place is a ghost town, and I've gone at different times of day each time (morning, rush hour, lunch, evening rush hour etc).
Scousefury
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Thats a nice way of putting it. You could also say i fucking hate them and everthing they stand for and if May was on fire i would'nt piss on her till she was in the ground.
FlammableD
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They have Taco Bell in Leeds now?
Daffy Duck
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