pollings stations around Southwark

[louisiana]

If you've tried to visit the London Elects website today to check where you polling station is or similar, you will probably have found the site is down.

It's been down for the best part of the day. (Lots of money spent on advertising/posters, little on web infrastructure, it seems.)

If you want to check where you need to go, our (Open Rights Group) wiki page may help you. This page lists all polling stations in Southwark (building and street, and postcode where it's been provided to us).

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Polling_stations_Southwark

There's also one for Lambeth:

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Polling_stations_Lambeth

and so on.

These are the pages we're using ourselves for planning, as we clearly can't use the London Elects ones!

Happy voting tomorrow!

[louisiana]

Correction: the LE home page is not down, but if you try and find anything out (your polling station, info about voting in Southwark etc.), you just get a 404 page (and before that you got a fairly horrific error page). They seem to have a database problem. Still a problem at the moment (6.30pm)

[louisiana]

It's 7.53pm the day before the election, and the London Elects 'find your polling station' website facility is still down, as is the 'elections in my area' facility. Apparently London Elects is only able to function via mobile phone texting right now.

Here's a complete list on the Web of polling stations by London borough, on the Open Rights Group website:

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/London_Elections_in_2008#Lists_of_polling_places

[Jamma]

Calm down. Your polling card will tell you where your local polling station is and will probably have a map printed on it too.

[Crepe Suzette]

I didn't get a polling card (ED Royal Mail being funny again?) whereas I did receive all the other election related post... so it's good to know where the polling stations are. By the way... can I vote without a polling card? I do have id and proof of address with me and plan to go after work....

[ratty]

You can text poll to 64118 and follow the instructions if you do not know where to vote!!

[Ondine]

yes you can vote without polling card