Going after the student vote – part 3

Local residents were stunned when they learnt recently that the Lib Dems are trying making it easier for students to vote, regardless of whether this makes voting more difficult for other residents. Local resident Kathleen Mason felt so strongly about the Lib Dems’ proposal, that she wrote to the paper to complain about it. Three days later, the paper published a reply from someone called Steve Harris. Steve said that he completely agrees with Kathleen and added that the Lib Dems are not just doing this in Hyde Park and Woodhouse. According to Steve, they’ve also submitted a proposal to establish a polling station inside a large student residence which happens to be a gated community. The residence he’s referring to is Kirkstall Brewery where the Lib Dems have proposed that a polling station be established to cater for the student residents who number over a thousand. Steve believes that polling stations shouldn’t be closely associated with sectional groups in this way since it distorts the electoral process.

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