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Greenbank in reply to @chez_jay

you have a card that arrives in the post that you are meant to show when you vote

No, it's just a confirmation that you are registered and tells you where the polling station is. Edit: I suppose you are encouraged to take it with you, but that just speeds up ticking you off the register.

I don't take the card with me, I just remember the number on it (since the list they check is ordered by that number not by name or address). This speeds up everything, plus it helps me shrug at the tellers outside who try and collect the cards (so they can make and sell lists of people who are active voters - not all of them are doing this).

Voting in the UK isn't anonymous at first, but the records linking voter number and unique ballot paper number are supposed to be destroyed once they are happy that there has been no fraud at that polling station.

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aggi in reply to @Greenbank

This speeds up everything, plus it helps me shrug at the tellers outside who try and collect the cards (so they can make and sell lists of people who are active voters - not all of them are doing this)

For more marginal constituencies they try and collect these so they know who has voted so later in the day they can go and knock on doors to remind people to vote (for them).

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