Oct 2019
10:56am, 29 Oct 2019
9,304 posts
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larkim
Yep, love the goal hanger analogy! Where do the Lib Dems prefer students to vote? En masse in their Uni towns where they have a collective force, I suppose? I hadn't realised in Local Elections students are allowed to vote in both their home and their Uni location. Obvs, not for a GE though. Need to offer parental advice as to where vote might carry more value! |
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Oct 2019
10:58am, 29 Oct 2019
9,305 posts
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larkim
Corbyn finally gets behind election. And we're off...
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Oct 2019
11:05am, 29 Oct 2019
6,866 posts
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Too Much Water
Is there anything to stop students voting both at home and at uni - yes I know it’s illegal - but are there any practical checks?
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Oct 2019
11:06am, 29 Oct 2019
30,383 posts
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LindsD
Don't think so.
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Oct 2019
11:06am, 29 Oct 2019
30,384 posts
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LindsD
I was sent a polling card for an election when I wasn't even 18.
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Oct 2019
11:07am, 29 Oct 2019
29,575 posts
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SPR
Can't you only be registered in one place? You therefore can't be on two lists?
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Oct 2019
11:10am, 29 Oct 2019
29,605 posts
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♪♫ Egnys ♪♫
According to the Electoral Commission, you can register in two places as a student. (I think both my daughters did this when at uni.) Interestingly, you are also allowed to vote in *local* elections in *both* locations! electoralcommission.org.uk But only once in a GE, although, as has been queried above, checks may not be all they should be. |
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Oct 2019
11:11am, 29 Oct 2019
16,187 posts
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Stander
So a GE it is then?
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Oct 2019
11:14am, 29 Oct 2019
6,867 posts
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Too Much Water
“You can’t be in two lists”. Clearly this is the law, but how do they know / check you are on two lists was my point? |
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Oct 2019
11:16am, 29 Oct 2019
9,306 posts
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larkim
I think as a student you'd have to be pretty dim to turn up at a polling station to cast a vote (and have your name ticked off a list) and the turn up at another one and have the same record made (or cast a postal vote and leave a record of that). Clearly you'd have to be looking for the duplication to find it, but as most outcomes are not so close that a handful of stupid students swing the vote it probably doesn't make much of a difference.
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