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Turnout.
Id be interested to hear how busy folks found their polling sration. Compared to past elections.
Mine is a hostorical tory safe seat. Predicted to go lib dem.
Turnout at 11am seemed about normal. No real queues 20 or so folks 2 puppies. Past genral elections were about the same. EU ref was notably more people.
In terms of postal votes, it's estimated there will be around 10m in total, a 20% increase on 2019.
Also a sizable % of voters. Given a 66m population.
Interesting that privatised Royal Mail is having issues delivering them on time. I'm sure I am just inventing conspiracies here. As I can't see Tories benefitting from it.
The Tories have already introduced ID for voter fraud that was non existent and taken away most of the power from the Electoral Commission. It wouldn't surprise me. ๐
Only reason I'd be surprised. Elderly voters are more likely to use postal voting than young.