All you need to know about voting in the UK general election as Glasgow residents get ready to go to the polls on Thursday, July 4.
When Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stepped out into the pouring rain on Wednesday to announce a summer poll, he fired the starting gun on a hectic six weeks for Glasgow’s election office.
When the Local Democracy Reporting Service sat down with Emma Rodger, elections and democratic services manager, on Tuesday, there was still uncertainty over when the vote would take place. Just 24 hours later, a sodden Sunak finally set a date.“We will get notified the same as everybody else,” Emma said. “It’ll be on the news. Then I will stand up the election team.”
Once the election is created, staff will have dates for “what has to be done and when”, such as the last point someone can register to vote. The deadline to register to vote for this election is Tuesday, June 18 while the cut-off point to apply for a postal vote is 5pm on Wednesday, June 19. A polling scheme is also created, with all polling places and the number of stations within that place. Mostly schools, community centres and church halls are used.
Work will get underway on recruiting staff too Emma said: “The team has to start contacting people to say ‘we’ve now got an election on X date, will you work in a polling place? You’ve worked in Hillhead Primary before, are you prepared to do that again? Emma said voter ID is “a massive issue this time round”. People who don’t have ID can contact the electoral registration office to get “a voter authority certificate”, she added.
“So we are not sitting in a position on the day of saying ‘I’m really sorry, we can’t allow you to vote’. People will be refused a vote, if you can’t demonstrate who they are.” Now, you would need voter ID — and can only hand over six votes including your own. Any brought in by political parties or campaigns “would be put aside and would not be counted”.
One of the problems is people choose not to go into Royal Mail because they think it won’t get there in time, but as long as they complete that form within a couple of days of getting it, it will definitely get there in time. They just have to be prepared.”Historically, anyone who had lived overseas for 15 years was unable to vote in Britain, Emma said, but that rule has now been removed.
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