Just voted, slight ripoff warning ..

they will proably be noting who hasnt been either so they can go knock on the door later..
 
They will send SOME leaflets out to everyone on the electoral register.

But if they also KNOW you vote - you go to the top of the list for 'extra leaflet and post bombardment' campaigning, as oppose to the people they KNOW* didn't bother voting last time. Why spend much time and effort on them?

* If they form the deduction from the bloke outside the polling station NOT having their number -the voter can be considered a no-show
 
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Well, I let that lovely lady have my number. I'll be moving out come July anyway, so let the mail come next general/local election, I'll be a few houses away :)
 
I thought this had been going on for years in marginals - don't get anyone at mine because it's a very very safe labour seat - nobody cares.
 
Russinating said:
What the OP is saying is you'll get more if they know you vote :).
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Well I just can't see how that is the case really, as we get tons of personally addressed election stuff, and I always have - because I'm on the electoral roll.

Surely being on the roll is indication of my wanting to vote? I've never given anyone any information at the polling station.
 
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Well I just can't see how that is the case really, as we get tons of personally addressed election stuff, and I always have - because I'm on the electoral roll.

Surely being on the roll is indication of my wanting to vote? I've never given anyone any information at the polling station.
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Yes if you have never given anyone your number apart from the final person who gives you the voting slip (and no-one has asked for it), it means

'In your constituency no-one really cares about the information about who votes and who doesn't enough to bother finding out by planting these people at the station' - which means the electoral register will all be canvassed about the same, next time around.

I would guess (maybe wrongly) you're not at a marginal constituency ..!
 
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platypus said:
One assumes you'll update the electoral roll though?
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Right on the very last day, yup.
After doing a CRB this year (for my teaching course), I suddenly get all these electoral leaflets + the usual door to door junk. I didn't want to register till the last moment in April to keep these mails to a minimal :/
 
Meh, I postal vote. Never been to a polling station....

Having said that we did get a conservative bloke turn up at our door this morning, rather late as we'd already voted. :D
 
didn't get my number, couldn't find my polling card. Turns out I didn't need to take it and scarily they didn't even ask me for ID :eek: just asked my name and address and gave me my ballot papers
 
Thanks for the heads up, don't know if they'll be at my polling station, but I'll warn friends/family regardless.
 
Previous elections I have been one of the people outside the polling station doing this, it's called 'telling' and it's hardly as cloak and dagger as you make it out to be.

The reason that I was involved in doing this was to get an idea of how many people who had already pledged a vote for the party the teller is associated with have turned out to vote. The idea being that when the candidate or representative goes door knocking later that day that they will not go to any houses who have already been to vote.

You are of course right that no one is obliged to give tellers any information, but in my experience it means less hassle in the future for those people that do.
 
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