Voting experience survey

[Paul Swain]

Hi Everyone!

BPiA is running a survey to get information on your experience voting in
the recent UK General Election.  If you'd like to contribute (and I hope
you will), the survey is at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/overseasvotingexperience

I've had a bit on so I am a quite late in sending this out, so please
complete the survey as soon as possible as I'm not sure how long it will
be open.

If you have any questions, please post them in a reply to this message.

Thanks


Paul

[Clive Richards]

Thank you Paul. Survey done. Hope all good!!
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[Jill & Ken Willes]

Hi Paul.

Survey doesn’t work because it assumes we received postal votes. I registered and had confirmation of my enrolment etc. There is no option to say that we did not receive any communication from the uk electoral office. Pretty shabby!!

In my electorate the sitting member Sir Ian Duncan Smith had been wasting space for many years and the Labour candidate had been working incredibly hard and was about to wipe him out. 4 weeks before the election, the Labour Party parachuted a new candidate into the seat.

Needless to say the conservatives got back in with 17,281 votes. The original candidate became an independent and came third with 12,445 votes. The parachuted in labour candidate came second with 12,524 votes. If labour had not split the vote, it would have had a
landslide win.

I’m not a great fan of preference voting but in this case the will of the majority would have prevailed.

Ken willes

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[Marcus Wigan]

I have no record of the two dates and in order to proceed I put in 01/01/2000 to meet the survey system requirement for a response to proceed. It actually accepts 00/00/2000 for example. Pity you didn’t include an other” option as not everyone will figure out the survey checking process and be unable to proceed.

The overall voting system-once registered(!) was pretty good
Marcus Wigan australia
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[Ch...@pensionsjustice.org]

Thanks for your comments. To make the survey as easy as possible for most respondents, it had to curtailed to the questions that we want answers on. As such, we could not and did not wish to cover every eventuality.
When you say shabby, I assume you are referring to the electoral office you applied to?
John

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[Paul Swain]

Hi Everyone!

In addition to John's comments below about the survey design, I also got the following from BPiA:

We had to balance the simplicity and brevity of the survey with the desire to cover all possibilities. If we have tilted too much towards brevity, it is because we know that many people will give up if the survey takes too long to complete. There is provision to add comments at the end so if the standard responses don’t fit exactly their circumstances.

For example, they could answer question 4 “Did you register to vote” as negative and answer question 5 “Why didn’t you register” with “I tried but my application wasn’t accepted” or something appropriate to their circumstances and answer question 6 “Why wasn't your application accepted?” with “other” and then explain their experience. Answer question 7 as “other” and explain what happened. Choose “proxy vote” or “postal vote” (it doesn’t matter which) for question 8 and then add further details in the response to question 9 (some people flew to the UK and voted in person and explained this in response to question 9).

So if you had problems, maybe you could try again and use this information to allow you to pass on your experience.

Paul