Tag: elections

• Voter ID

  

  Currently, in the USA, the votes are being counted. This post is not about them. In the UK, a Bill was published in late October describing the way in which Voter ID will be implemented in the Election Act 2022. The first use of Voter ID is declared to be in the local elections of…

  bish

  9 Nov 2022

  parish council, politics

  disenfranchised, elections, id, voter

• Vote for me (or at least, vote!)

  

  I’m in the interesting position of actually being on a ballot paper next month! I first joined my parish council in 2007 (twelve years ago!) under the rules of co-option. That means there was a space on the council due to someone leaving but there was no election scheduled. I can’t remember now why the…

  bish

  21 Apr 2019

  parish council, politics, Uncategorized

  elections, local, parish

• Misreporting the news… local elections

  I didn’t have a vote yesterday in the Local Elections. If I had of had one, I would have voted – I always do, I feel it is a right hard won that should not be dishonoured by apathy. The next time I vote it may, I admit, be a deliberately spoiled ballot, but I…

  bish

  4 May 2012

  politics, rant

  apathy, disenfranchised, dissent, elections, government, riot, turnout, vote