Postal votes in the UK (During covid and beyond)

I actually started the thread as they are being encouraged because of the pandemic, which I asumed was obvious, as we are in a pandemic.

Anyway it is still a topic for discussion pandemic or not.

I know people who changed to them for various reasons, mainly to do with work and how they may not be in or around their polling station on the day.

Personally it would be much easier for me to postal vote all the time but also quite easy to walk 2 streets to my polling station.

I would encourage more use for those that cannot get out and especially say the May vote should be postal anyone who can do a postal vote in a pandemic should
 
Ancient Citizen said:
No, it's the easiest way to implement fraud, the only valid reasons for it
is absentee votes. If you can't be arsed to get round the corner to a polling
booth, don't bother.
It's interesting, but not surprising, to see Labour pushing for it.
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Yeah, Labour always gives cover for the Asians, same as the Democrats with the Blacks in Pittsburgh and Atlanta.

Thank god we have patriots like you willing to dog whistle this bullshit.
 
The perfect fumble said:
Yeah, Labour always gives cover for the Asians, same as the Dems in the US with the Blacks in Pittsburgh and Atlanta.

Thank god we have patriots like you willing to dog whistle this bullshit.
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Is there ever a day on this forum where someone on the left doesn’t bring up race, in a subject that doesn’t have anything to do with race?
 
Ancient Citizen said:
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.
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maybe - instead of diving in as you put it - your cause would be better served if you sat back, thought through what point you were trying to make and expanded it to include all such likely observations because whilst the topic is Postal Votes and you are keen to allege what has always been a tiny issue of voter fraud in the past the biggest driver for an upsurge in postal votes is bound to be the bleedin' obvious. Indeed whilst the vaccine rollout continues and there will be people who have had the virus and acquired anti-bodies there is still a chance of regional lockdowns and government restrictions on gatherings meaning increased demand for postal votes will remain.

I am currently recovering from Covid 19 and am indoors until 14th Feb but if the news on antibodies acquisition remains favourable I'll have no qualms about attending in person and voting. What about you? I assume with your aversion to mail in votes then regardless of any acquired immunity or absence of a vaccination by that date you'll just be puffing out your chest and striding in there to vote in person?
 
bluethrunthru said:
maybe - instead of diving in as you put it - your cause would be better served if you sat back, thought through what point you were trying to make and expanded it to include all such likely observations because whilst the topic is Postal Votes and you are keen to allege what has always been a tiny issue of voter fraud in the past the biggest driver for an upsurge in postal votes is bound to be the bleedin' obvious. Indeed whilst the vaccine rollout continues and there will be people who have had the virus and acquired anti-bodies there is still a chance of regional lockdowns and government restrictions on gatherings meaning increased demand for postal votes will remain.

I am currently recovering from Covid 19 and am indoors until 14th Feb but if the news on antibodies acquisition remains favourable I'll have no qualms about attending in person and voting. What about you? I assume with your aversion to mail in votes then regardless of any acquired immunity or absence of a vaccination by that date you'll just be puffing out your chest and striding in there to vote in person?
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The right always want to suppress the vote, always and everywhere. I'll give them their due, it's not just Asians and blacks, they make it difficult for students to vote as well and they long to introduce identity checks at polling stations, always in the name of combating fraud you understand, which as you say is so small as to be practically non-existent.

The right take it as a given that the left will always seek to undermine electoral integrity, its motives in everything are always suspect, of course the smarter right wingers know it's nothing but a lie. The fact that Covid 19 makes postal votes vital is dismissed as nothing more than another left wing excuse to engage in their usual shenanigans.
 
Ban-jani said:
Is there ever a day on this forum where someone on the left doesn’t bring up race, in a subject that doesn’t have anything to do with race?
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Tbf to fumble only 2 nationally reported instances of postal vote fraud allegations have both been with the accusation it happend in imigrant communities in wycombe, by well known tory gobshite steve baker MP and Peterbproughs Asian community accused by farage and his party.

So the accusation that it is in those communities already exists.


Not that ot matters to answering the original question of whether you will use the service or not

General comment not reply to you Ban below


I have changed the thread title once already as I couldn't give a shite about the US system so reverted it to UK postal votes, why people have to veer off topic I don't know.

Any and all of you
 
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