Discussion Thread: Hold elections on a weekend

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Discussion Thread: Hold elections on a weekend

18.01.2010 // by POWER2010

This is an archived discussion thread for the "Hold elections on a weekend" voting page. Voting, and this discussion thread, have now closed.

darlinganitarichards 1 month ago

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put some polling stations in Tesco, M&S etc.

cim 1 month ago

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Thursdays do have the advantage of not being a holy day for any major religion (which both the weekend days are).  Perhaps a better way would be to make general election days be an additional bank holiday?

Andrew Kitching 1 month ago
How did this ever become a convention?

D. Redfern 1 month ago
This is silly, there is nothing wrong with Thursday polls, it's the complete apathy of the voting public that's the problem. Its up to government to encourage people to vote which should involve a degree of commitment to do so.

DonG 1 month ago

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It would avoid the cost and disruption to the wealth-creators in the country of having schools off, and the waste of money giving the teachers yet another day off.

simon_g42 1 month ago in reply to DonG
It should also be possible to end voting at 8.00 or even 7.00 rather than the current 10.00.

Sisyphus 1 month ago

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That should surely be "at the weekend" rather than "on a weekend". Despite appearances, we're still not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the United States.

peterlucas 2 weeks ago
Polls are open 7AM till 10PM. Voting takes minitues. I don't see a need for weekend elections, which aside from anything else could drive up costs by council workers who count the votes having to be paid overtime.

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Steveistall 3 weeks ago

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@thedancingflea @bevaniteEllie: Think that's bad? One of the ideas in the @power_2010 vote is to move voting to weekend http://bit.ly/9tOdLh