Democracy - my part in its victory

[ceemage]

As our house is probably the closest (by walking route, if not as the crow flies) to the local special school that serves as our local polling station, I've already been down and out to vote. No council elections here (we elect three years out of four, and this year is the "off year"), but the European Parliament elections cover the whole country.

As a middle manager, I have a highly-developed skill of reading things upside down (always useful when sitting the other side of a senior manager's desk), and thus was able to determine that I was the fourth person to vote at this polling station. So, my vote was enough to put us in in the position of having had more voters than polling staff on duty. Which is not bad for 07:25 a.m.

Of course, in an ideal world, it would have been a Single Transferable Vote voting system (as in Northern Ireland) rather than d'Hondt with closed party lists, but I suppose any degree of Proportional Representation is better than none.

I'm assuming that we'll have exit polls at 10:01 p.m. tonight, but most council elections won't be counted until Friday morning, whilst the European ballots don't get counted until Sunday, once the polls have closed across the rest of Europe.

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[maymorning.livejournal.com]

The Sprog and I are going this afternoon, the village hall in Llanfarian, to vote. Himself was going to come too, but he had to dash back to London yesterday, so as I've still got his proxy, I'll vote for him. We're not having council elections, either, just the European one.

[ceemage.livejournal.com]

That's right. These days, Wales (like Scotland) only has council elections once every four years.