Have the polling problems been an embarrassment to British democracy?
| 01:15 UK time, Friday, 7 May 2010
Hundreds of voters have been and police have been called to deal with queues which meant hundreds of Brits did not have a chance to vote.
Tiggerchick emailed the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ,
' I'm disgusted that I have just been denied a vote. I have been at work all day so turned up to vote at 9.30. The queue was huge. There were only 2 people checking off details to allow votes. Why didn't they put more people on? How many other places this happened in and therefore how valid the final count will be!'
Lots of you around the world have been getting in touch with WHYS to tell us how much you admire the British electoral system, like Samuel in Ghana who hoped that the rest of the world 'could learn from the decency and excellence of British democracy'.
But John in Sierra Leone text us to say that the West would be criticising Africa if the same thing had happened there.
Eamon in Kent has little sympathy for those who didn't make it in time
'With the polling stations open for 13 hours, I find it hard to believe that anybody could not find time to vote between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m.'
Does the fact that so many people turned out to vote hail this election a success or does it affect the credibility of these elections? Are you surprised that people are being turned away or are rules rules?
