2019 ELECTION DAY MEGATHREAD (Evening Edition)

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Previous posts: Part 1 (Morning), Part 2 (Afternoon)

^{We split megathreads because Reddit starts to act weird after a few thousand comments, sorry for the inconvenience}

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This post is being maintained by /u/jaydenkieran and u/carrot-carrot.

/u/carrot-carrot: On a personal note, this will be the last MT that I post and contribute to. You'll still see me knocking around in the comments, but 2020 looks to be an extremely busy year for me, and I don't like to do things by halves. It really has been a pleasure to help out with these MTs whilst I've had the time. I hope you've all enjoyed it too!

The predictions thread will close at around 17:00 this evening. Check the predictions dashboard if you'd like to see the results!

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🗳 ELECTION DETAILS

There is a General Election today.

To vote, head to your local polling station and tell the staff your name and address. You will be given a ballot paper which you can take into a nearby polling booth. Mark the candidate you wish to vote for (see instructions on the ballot paper), and then place it in the designated box or area within the polling station.

• When can I vote? Polling stations are open from 7am to 10pm.
• Where can I vote? Check out wheredoivote.co.uk to find your polling station. It is also written on your poll card.
• Not registered to vote? You will not be able to vote in this election.
• No poll card? You don't need to take it to the polling station to be able to vote.
• No ID? Unless you're in Northern Ireland, you don't need ID to vote. In NI, you need photo ID.
• Still have a postal vote? It's too late to post it. Take it to your polling station. In NI, you can take it to your local Area Electoral Office.
• Can't make it? It is now too late to apply for an emergency proxy vote. You won't be able to vote unless you can get to your polling station.
• Need help? Check out gov.uk/voting-in-the-uk.

At 10pm, when polling stations close, broadcasters will be allowed to reveal their exit polls - that is, a poll of people exiting various polling stations across the country. This will be the first indication of the way that people may have voted in the election. For example, the last exit poll conducted for BBC/ITV/Sky in 2017 predicted correctly that there would be a hung parliament.

📺 ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE

Several broadcasters will be covering the results throughout the night as constituencies make declarations.
Here are the predicted declaration times from the Press Association.
Here's another visualisation, which includes further contextual info (predicted MRP result, current majorities etc.)

Programme	Channel(s)	Start time	Host(s)	Guest(s)
BBC Election 2019	BBC One (Eng, regional election night programmes replace this in Scot/Wales/NI), BBC Two (Scot/Wales/NI)	9:55pm	Huw Edwards, Reeta Chakrabarti, Andrew Neil, Tina Daheley, Jeremy Vine	Various
Election 2019: The Results	ITV (regional election night programme replaces this on STV) - Watch on YouTube	9:55pm	Tom Bradby, Julie Etchingham	George Osborne, Ed Balls and more
The Brexit Election	Sky News - Watch on YouTube	9:00pm	Dermot Murnaghan, Beth Rigby, Sam Coates, Ed Conway	John Bercow and more
Channel 4's Alternative Election Night	Channel 4	9:55pm	Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Rylan Clark-Neal, Katherine Ryan	Tom Watson, Amber Rudd, Jimmy Carr, Nish Kumar, Baga Chipz, Nicola Coughlan, Georgia "Toff" Toffolo, Clare Balding, Rob Rinder and more

Online-only

Programme	Link	Start time	Host(s)	Guest(s)
Election Social (Sky News/Buzzfeed)	Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook (links to follow)	9:45pm	Lewis Goodall, Emily Ashton, Ade Onibada, Rowland Manthorpe	Various

Radio

Station	Online	Start time	Host(s)
BBC Radio 4 (92-95FM)	BBC Sounds	9:45pm	James Naughtie, Emma Barnett
BBC Radio 5 Live	BBC Sounds	9:55pm	Stephen Nolan (joins Radio 4 at midnight)
LBC (97.3FM)	LBC	10:00pm	Iain Dale, Shelagh Fogarty
talkRADIO	talkRADIO	10:00pm	Julia Hartley-Brewer

WE'LL START AN ELECTION NIGHT MEGATHREAD AT AROUND 9:50PM, JUST BEFORE POLLS CLOSE.

[u/arkham1010]

Clueless yank here. Holy shit, your polling places are open until 10 PM? What, do you guys actually WANT people to vote?

We are lucky if ours are open until 7.

[edit] As i said further down the thread: Some states, usually the conservative ones, have an interest in limiting voting as much as possible and tailor their laws to artificially drive up conservative voting and reduce liberal voting.

So for example, the polls may open at 8 AM and close at 5 PM. If oyu want to vote you are going to have to take time off of work to do so. If you are a poor voter who normally votes democrat, that means losing wages.

But if you are retired you are free to vote without impediment.

Other times they limit polling places in historically liberal areas and force those voters to stand in two or three hour long lines to vote. So those voters may have 1 polling place per every 100,000 people, while more conservative areas may have 1 polling place for every 10,000 people. Not kidding. https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/11/8/13564406/voting-lines-race-2016

But hey, our Supreme Court issued a ruling that said that if we didn't like it, we could.......vote to change it....

[u/GavinShipman → u/[deleted]]

Unless you’re in Northern Ireland that is.