Those unable to vote were asked to come back before the stations close at 10 p.m. local time (21:00 GMT).
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An estimated 250,000 Londoners are visiting polling stations in Barnet on Thursday to vote for the capital’s next mayor and Assembly members, according to The Independent.
“An apology is really not good enough”.
THERE are calls for a full public inquiry into why so many people were denied the right to vote in Barnet this morning.
The error meant that people who did not have their polling card with them were unable to vote.
Ian Shapiro said he was one of nine people at his local polling station who had been turned away despite bringing their polling card with them to vote. In the meantime, people who have their polling cards with them are able to vote.
Labour MPs and activists have voiced concerns about voters being turned away from polling stations in North London today.
However, Twitter users are venting their frustration after finding that they have been unable to cast their vote.
People looking to cast their vote before work were turned away as a result of incomplete lists being sent to administrators.
Zac Goldsmith’s team appealed to voters turned away from polling stations to return later.
Barnet Council has apologised for the problems at its polling stations.
Some people trying to vote who hadn’t brought their polling cards – which you don’t actually need to vote – discovered that their names weren’t on the list of registered voters, and so couldn’t be given a ballot paper.
She said there had “clearly been a major problem across the whole of the Borough of Barnet” and added: “It remains to be seen what the effect of this will be upon the three ballots taking place there”. However a representative confirmed that they were unable to do so as Rabbi Mirvis is now en route to the airport to visit Holland’s Jewish community.
It continues: “We are working to resolve this issue and the updated registers have been sent to all the polling stations, which we expect to be in place by 10am”.
Conor Pope said: ‘People in Barnet being turned away and told to come back later because polling stations have wrong voter lists’.
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It was unable to say how numerous 236,196 registered voters had been turned away. At the Bishop Douglass School polling station at 9am harassed-looking officials were pulling would-be voters aside to explain “the systems are down”.
