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08-06-2017, 12:26 PM
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Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

It seems daft that we don't vote on a Sunday, like other countries appear to do. Two of the primary schools in our area are closed today as they are being used as polling booths. This is unfair to working parents who have only just got the little darlings back to school again after half term.
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08-06-2017, 12:45 PM
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

Originally Posted by tarantula ->
It seems daft that we don't vote on a Sunday, like other countries appear to do. Two of the primary schools in our area are closed today as they are being used as polling booths. This is unfair to working parents who have only just got the little darlings back to school again after half term.
I agree, Sunday would be much better and would probably result in a higher turnout.
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08-06-2017, 12:50 PM
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

Or to put it another way:

Why are British elections always held on Thursdays?

UNTIL 1918, polling at General Elections took place over several days and at one time different constituencies could complete polling on different days, thereby - it was alleged - creating a bandwagon effect for a successful political party. The 1918 Representation of the People Act restricted polling to one day (except for Orkney and Shetland until 1929). Since 1918 a General Election has always been on a Thursday, except for 1918, 1922, 1924 and 1931. The reason for choosing Thursday, it is said, was as follows. On Fridays the voters were paid their wages and if they went for a drink in a public house they would be subject to pressure from the Conservative brewing interests, while on Sundays they would be subject to influence by Free Church ministers who were generally Liberal in persuasion. Therefore choose the day furthest from influence by either publicans or Free Church clergymen, namely Thursday. Although these influences are much less significant today, the trend towards Thursday becoming a universal polling day has continued, because Urban District Councils and Rural District Councils all polled on a Saturday until they were abolished under the 1972 Local Government Act. Their successor District Councils poll on a Thursday and the Parish Council polling day was changed from Saturday to Thursday at the same time.

E. M. Syddique (Research and Information Department,) Electoral Reform Society, London SE
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08-06-2017, 12:51 PM
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

Personally I'd hate Sunday's I have too much already to do that day but postal voting I guess any day is ok, here's reason we do vote on Thursdays https://www.theguardian.com/notesand...,-2036,00.html
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08-06-2017, 12:52 PM
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

Originally Posted by Omah ->
Or to put it another way:

Why are British elections always held on Thursdays?



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Snap I believe
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08-06-2017, 01:12 PM
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

On Fridays the voters were paid their wages and if they went for a drink in a public house they would be subject to pressure from the Conservative brewing interests
One of our polling stations is having to share premises with a beer festival today!
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08-06-2017, 01:19 PM
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

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Because Sundays are for fishing.
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

It is about time tradition was scrapped, and we voted on a Sunday as it is a day off for many people.
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Re: Why don't we vote on a Sunday?

Originally Posted by tarantula ->
It is about time tradition was scrapped, and we voted on a Sunday as it is a day off for many people.
Really ? I thought more were working Sunday's than ever before, it's a 24/7 life these days.
 
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