UK Police and Crime Commissioner election results come in - but only 1 in 10 bothered to vote - Polidicks

You think this is bad? We elect judges in the US.

My dad said about 10 people came into the polling office he had to monitor.

If I campaigned for it does that mean I could of had a chance at winning?

I had completely forgotten when the voting date was and even if I did I wouldn't know who I would've been voting for anyway. I saw no advertisements regarding the matter, not even a leaflet thats normally sneaked through the letter box before elections.

I'm English and I don't know what the fuck it was for either :v:

Well fuck me, I called that one wrong. EDIT: Screw you BBC, don't give me links that don't have what they say they have in them. The candidate for "Zero Tolerance Policing" won.

I'm part of the 90%

tory won here at 12.8% hooray democracy......

Our area elected a Tory Predictable Ah he's apparently the former assistant chief constable though. Only him and the Lib Dem candidate had a police background

[QUOTE=lionheart1066;38476454]I had completely forgotten when the voting date was and even if I did I wouldn't know who I would've been voting for anyway. I saw no advertisements regarding the matter, not even a leaflet thats normally sneaked through the letter box before elections.[/QUOTE] I kept hearing an advert on the radio that said, "you should be received a leaflet telling you everything you need to know about the vote through the post", no one I know received anything

huge waste of time and money

[QUOTE=smurfy;38476534]Our area elected a Tory Predictable Ah he's apparently the former assistant chief constable though. Only him and the Lib Dem candidate had a police background[/QUOTE] When people without a police background can run for this you know something is wrong.

[QUOTE=matt.ant;38476550]I kept hearing an advert on the radio that said, "you should be received a leaflet telling you everything you need to know about the vote through the post", no one I know received anything[/QUOTE] We got a card telling us where/when to vote but no information about who was running or anything. I know my parents didn't vote because they had no idea what it was about/for.

[QUOTE=matt.ant;38476550]I kept hearing an advert on the radio that said, "you should be received a leaflet telling you everything you need to know about the vote through the post", no one I know received anything[/QUOTE] I heard this evening on Radio 4 they didn't do that because it was too expensive, so to get a booklet you'd have to go on the website to order one. Some nice recursive logic there.

An awesome collection of spoiled voting papers: [url]http://pccspoil.tumblr.com/[/url] My personal favorite: [img]http://i.cubeupload.com/x8IFFZ.jpg[/img]

The leaflets from candidates consisted of insults to other parties really is too political

[img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdk1eo4ANK1rln75mo1_1280.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=MrEndangered;38477614]An awesome collection of spoiled voting papers: [url]http://pccspoil.tumblr.com/[/url] My personal favorite: [img]http://i.cubeupload.com/x8IFFZ.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [img]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdk2lzfuTl1rln75mo1_1280.jpg[/img]

Upon hearing about this I was excited to be able to vote for the first time. Sadly I knew fucking nothing about any candidates and the only info I received was the date and location of the voting office. Shit cunts.

Glad I ended up spoiling my ballot. Democracy in action (hopefully)!

It got next to no bloody advertisement so what did they expect. I saw my local area's candidates on the news for about 10 minuets and all of them we're so far removed from reality that i didn't want any of them. I mean their policies we're all equally pointless and EVERY single one of them said they would cut police spending as one of their top priorities. Fuck right off, i want to see more police on the streets and less of the fake coppers not the other way around.

I was considering spoiling my ballot but I decided not to vote at all after I realised that spoiled ballots contribute to the turnout figures.

Just heard they spent nearly £100 million (Don't know if that includes their wages for 4 years) on this. Oh, and also cutting the entire police budget.

I was going to vote but then I realized I don't actually care at all I imagine that's how everyone else felt

The independent that won in Kent was voted for by just about every police officer in the county. And I think it was just us that voted.

I didn't even know it was happening.

I'm in the UK and this is the first time I'm hearing of this vote. [editline]17th November 2012[/editline] Oh wait, this was a non-London thing? That'll probably be why.

Both my candidates were useless. I chose to vote for neither of them.

I voted. The problem was I had to search what I was voting for. None of the parties actually gave out any information what so ever, yeah I saw the posters saying who I could vote for but not one said what they was going to do. Now I have a feeling they will do nothing, so nothing to see here lol

My candidates were all "We'll improve policing and put more officers on the street." I was like "Fuck that, they try to give me £30 on-the-spot fines for mounting the pavement to avoid being ran over by the fucking terrible drivers in my town enough as it is."