Disenfranchised voters across the country have been protesting about being unable to vote in the 2010 General Election, after being turned away late from polling stations.
Today, I went to a polling station to do something which I hope never to do again. I voted in a general election conducted under the first-past-the-post system.
Democracy campaigners are urging the public to refuse to give in to the big two parties, and to vote instead for a 'hung parliament' and radical political and voting reform.
As polling gets under way and the exhausted leadership candidates return to their constituencies and their families, it is a good time to reflect on political activists and on families.
The 2010 General Election campaign has been more volatile and interesting than anyone could have predicted, and the outcome now sits on a knife-edge, says Simon Barrow. But whichever way it goes, there is an opportunity for genuine, ground-up, civic based change. We must not ignore or miss it.
For the first time in a British general election, significant numbers of voters will today have the opportunity to support candidates from parties described specifically as “Christian”. Symon Hill hopes that very few of them will choose to do so.
A large number of people in Britain actually support Green Party policies without necessarily recognising it, despite an unfair voting system that hampers small parties.
The British National Party, which has tried hard to disguise its aggressive racism in search of election, was unable to stem its violence and internal chaos as the polls opened.