No vote for Sompting

The reason I did not vote, as well as the rest of my family, is because we never received our polling cards.

How can we vote when we have nothing to vote with?

I'll admit it didn't register with us that we hadn't received them until it was actually voting day, but by then it was too late.

We thought that we'd been forgotton, so we thought stuff them!

But when I went to work the next day (I work in our local community shop), all of our regular customers came in and immediately everyone was asking each other whether anyone had received their voting cards.

It was obvious that a great deal of people in Sompting had been left out.

One of our customers, along with his wife, even walked up to our local community centre to see if he could vote without his card, but it was shut.

Donna Cobden

Sompting

Editor's note: Councillors in Adur will be delighted to see the spirit of democracy there is burning bright, but there were no polling cards because on this occasion, there was no election in the district.

One school still closed its doors to pupils for the day, despite not being needed as a polling station.