”I voted in the Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election because I consider it is my civic duty, but not with much enthusiasm. I am not really happy with the introduction of yet another level of bureaucracy.”

I voted in the Greater Lincolnshire Mayoral Election pretty enthusiastically, mainly because I know two of the candidates personally, and I voted for one of those in the vain hope that I could help to keep the obnoxious Andrea Jenkyns out and get someone I know to be a good candidate in. Sadly it was not to be.

As I said in the post Doug quoted from, I’m not sure about compulsory voting either, but it would be an answer to low turnouts.