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While we’ve been relaxing in Croatian campsites and the weather hasn’t been great, we’ve been getting some admin stuff done.<\/p>\nWhile we’ve been relaxing in Croatian campsites and the weather hasn’t been great, we’ve been getting some admin stuff done.<\/p>\n
One of the top things on my list was to make sure we could both vote in the upcoming EU Referendum on 23 June. So this doesn’t turn this into a political piece I won’t say which way I am voting, only what we have done to ensure that we can vote while we are on the road.<\/p>\n
When we left the UK the dates for the referendum hadn’t even been announced. Normally we do postal voting when we are at home, that way we don’t have to remember to go on the day. This time we won’t be there to fill in our postal forms, putting various coloured bits of paper into various envelopes, sometimes I think there is a hidden intelligence test in the postal voting system, so we’ve been in touch with our local electoral registration office and cancelled our postal votes for the referendum.<\/p>\n
Because we’re abroad, and don’t live abroad at a fixed address (which is a different set of forms) we need to arrange for someone to vote for us by proxy. That means they get to fill out the ballot papers on our behalf, so we need to pick someone we trust to vote as we want!<\/p>\n
To arrange for someone to vote by proxy on our behalf we’ve had to download the form below, get it printed, filled in, signed and sent to our local electoral registration office.\u00a0However, just doing this means that the person voting will need to go to our local polling station to fill out our ballots.<\/p>\n
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I’ve asked my Dad to be my proxy, but as he lives on the other side of Nottinghamshire he won’t want to drive to my home polling station to vote, so instead he will do his proxy vote by post.\u00a0To do this an additional form needs to completed by him and sent off along with the proxy request from I have filled in.<\/p>\n
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So today I got both sets of forms printed off (to make it easier for my Dad) and have filled in my parts. I have just posted them both to my Dad – Jay is sorting out his with his parents.\u00a0Once they arrive my Dad will have to fill in his parts on the postal vote request from, then post them both to my local electoral registration office to arrive\u00a0before 8\u00a0June.<\/p>\n
When it is time to vote in the referendum, my Dad will receive a set of postal voting papers to complete on my behalf, and I know he’ll pass the coloured paper\/envelopes test!\u00a0It’s a bit of a faff to be honest, but as this is such an important vote for our future it’s a faff I am happy to do.<\/p>\n