Like Steve, I've never had to wait in a long queue to vote, and our voting numbers tend to be significantly higher than in the USA. I don't know how many polling stations are seen as enough. Here we have them in schools most of the time, but all kinds of other places get used - church halls, sports centres, even pubs. A city of 250,000 population (all ages), Derby has about 80 polling stations.

At present you jus5 walk in, and give them your name and address, and the volunteer behind the table ticks off your name on the register in front of them, and hands you a voting slip and you go and mark it in a voting booth and stick it in the box. The boxes get picked up and taken to the Town Hall, and counted by tellers, and the result gets announced some time later that night. Pretty simple.

Mind they're talking about bringing in a requirement for some kind of identity check, such as requiring you bring in the card you've been sent at home giving details of the voting station and date of the election. Possibly something more. Can't see the point myself. Keeping things simmple works best.

If someone turned up and personated you and you went to vote it'd show up automatically. A personator would be risking heavy penalties chancing that you might not have voted already. Doesn't happen.

.Voting the dead has been a fairly traditional custom in Northern Ireland, but with both sides doing it balanced out fair enough. And it was often said, why should you lose your chance to vote for your side just because you'd died?