Registered to vote?

[KT84]

i have always presumed it is illegal to vote twice, however me and and a number of other students are registerd at home and then are registered elswhere by know fault of our own. For example 2 years ago i was automatically registered to vote when i lived in halls, and this year although we stated on the form that none of use were eligable to vote we were still sent cards for the local polling station, what would happen if we did vote twice?
and also how can this happen, surely the government can check if someone with the same name and dob is registered twice, its not rocket science.

[Peter Pedant]

None of you or your frenz are law students or philosophers obviously

It is lawful to be registered in more than one place, just as you can have a postal vote but vote in person

it is just that you cannot vote twice

Checks are done - you are right it is not rocket science - and there are a handful of cases after each election. A doctor applied for postal votes for some of his doddery old patients - and then completed the process by voting for them - that springs to mind, and there was wholesale postal vote forgery in Birmingham...

hope this helps

[gina32]

or english students either!

[dzug]

You can vote twice as long as they are for different elections. For example if there is a general election you can only vote once in it. But if it is held at the same time as local elections, you can vote legally in both the local elections.

I would think that the chances of being found out voting twice are low but not non-existent.

The cards are just an announcement that the election is taking place. They have no legal significance whatsoever - you don't need them to vote, and they don't prove who you are if you do use them, and the council are not obliged to send them out..

[dzug]

and this year although we stated on the form that none of use were eligable to vote

Then you lied. You ARE eligible to vote. You just have the choice of whether to vote at college or at home. You don't need to make this choice until the day of the election.

[Peter Pedant]

I dont think that voting in the mess president's election and voting in a general election, is voting twice,

or else we have all voted twenty times and electoral law doesnt exist.

I know, I am being pedantic

PP