By Slanted Light

I was checking the Times and Guardian early on, but the sites seem to be competely clogged up at the moment.

Always interesting to see how the rest of the world does it. This business about polling cards, for example - I gather you don't have to have one to vote, but in some polling places they separated out those who had them from those who didn't? Here we used to get a card when we enrolled or changed electorate, but no more, and no-one ever checked for them that I can recall - as long as you've registeredyou turn up to one of the polling places in your electorate, stand in line (or not - if there's a bit af a queue, go and have a sausage roll and a soft drink at the Scouts/P&C/Rotary BBQ and wait), get directed to a table (usually A-E for me, for example), give your name & address & get your ballot papers.

Of course this is all on a Saturday, so people meander along when it suits them. And since you have to turn up (and I agree with you about that) you do, or you pre-poll or postal vote...