Postal votes in the UK (During covid and beyond)

[Ancient Citizen]

errrrrrr- a certain pandemic may influence peoples intentions - you can't go to a match, you can't go swimming at the baths, you can't go to a gym but you must be forced to attend a polling station shoulder to shoulder? I think you may have had a wee sip of Trumps KoolAid

I qualified that statement, with Covid excepted, but I see the usual dive in.
Good to see Corbyn's Kool Aid was as effective as him, we may not have had the pleasure of polite discourse.

 

[BobKowalski]

Surely not, otherwise you end up with things like Brexit...

And you still want as many people voting as possible. People have to accept the consequences of their decisions. Brexit and it’s negative impact, or high Covid death rates for example.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

That isn’t an argument. Why is making voting easier or more convenient for people an issue?

Don’t you want as many people voting as possible?

It's very easy and convenient now. But as I said, want away, just like all the other things you never get, add this to the ever growing pile.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I qualified that statement, with Covid excepted, but I see the usual dive in.
Good to see Corbyn's Kool Aid was as effective as him, we may not have had the pleasure of polite discourse.

when responding - or diving in as you seem to think - this is your post that I was responding to. Where is Covid mentioned? Did you use invisible ink or something? Is there a coded message in there I didn't see?

Cobblers is more fitting.
Absentee, disabled, etc;, no problem, why do you want it rolled out for everyone?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Any other period in history, this wouldn’t even be discussed. It’s the overflow from the Trump playbook.

Voter fraud is minuscule in this country. Nothing to see here.

Voter fraud in the USA is also miniscule, and it's more likely to be Republicans.

The difference in the USA is that the vast majority of people who chose to vote by post are historically Democratic voters, and Trump ACTIVELY tried to derail the postal system in the run up to the election.

Not the case in the UK.

 

[BobKowalski]

It's very easy and convenient now. But as I said, want away, just like all the other things you never get, add this to the ever growing pile.

I am asking why you do not want more convenient and easier ways to vote? What is your objection to making things more convenient for people?

 

[hgblue]

Don’t trust lefties not to use this as an opportunity to cheat.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

when responding - or diving in as you seem to think - this is your post that I was responding to. Where is Covid mentioned? Did you use invisible ink or something? Is there a coded message in there I didn't see?

You dived at the first sight of that, covid was discussed later, and I said
that obviously postal votes are used. The topic is 'Postal Votes,' not just the application of them during a pandemic, whether it's good, bad or whatever.
Hope this helps.

 

[kaz7]

Voter fraud in the USA is also miniscule, and it's more likely to be Republicans.

The difference in the USA is that the vast majority of people who chose to vote by post are historically Democratic voters, and Trump ACTIVELY tried to derail the postal system in the run up to the election.

Not the case in the UK.

it seems a lifetime away from him taking the post boxes out

 

[Ancient Citizen]

I am asking why you do not want more convenient and easier ways to vote? What is your objection to making things more convenient for people?

Where do you post these votes? You have to go to a post box, I'd have thought.
Why not vote online? Why not get someone else to do it all for you?
There are many ways to make it even easier than posting, why limit it
to that? See where I'm going?
Anyway, I know you're not too bothered but footy calls;)