Counting Votes

tamborine | 21:52 Tue 24th Mar 2015 | ChatterBank

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Jackdaw33

These used to be jobs for the boys. You had to work for the Council to get on the polling stations or counting. People would take a day's paid leave and then do election duty. Very lucrative.

tamborine

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They must be desperate to ask me. Could be due to unsocial hours ie 9pm to 6am?

Jackdaw33

Ideally you need to be in a highly marginal seat with loads of recounts. You'll be rolling in it.

taichiperson

I did it once with a friend. Depending on how busy it is, it can be tedious. There were just the two of us in the Hall of a small village. It's long hours, as you probably won't get a break, but yes the money is good - I was paid £200 + for the day.

tonyav

Can you choose which votes to count ;-)

mikey4444

I always thought they used bank tellers for the job of the counting ?

I am looking forward to Election night, as I always do. I shall put a bottle of bubbly in the fridge at about 16:00. I will make lots of snacky things, like cheese and pineapple on sticks, and Twiglets, cover them with cling film and then go to bed !

Having set my alarm clock for 21:45, I shall make lots of coffee and settle down with the Yorkshire Wolfhound for the duration ( to be honest, he's not that interested in politics but its nice to have some company)

As soon as its apparent who has won, the bubbly will be opened....to either celebrate or to commiserate ! I still have the empty bottle of Moet that I opened in the small hours of the 2nd of May 1997. I wrote the date down on the label, with 6 !'s. What a night....it was euphoric to say the least.