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Villagers cast votes in bungalow bedroom

2010-05-06 40 Dailymotion

<p><br /> Voting is under way at one of the UK's most homely polling stations.<br /> </p><p><br /> Villagers in Chettisham, Cambridgeshire, are casting votes in the bedroom of a bungalow.<br /> </p><p><br /> Retired hairdresser Carmelia Bond, 61, offered her home as a polling station more than 30 years ago after the village hall closed.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mrs Bond's son, Marcus, a 30-year-old painter and decorator, moved out of the room for the day to allow two polling station officials to move in.<br /> </p><p><br /> Locals are guided to the front door by a sign on Mrs Bond's gate and a poster in the bedroom window.<br /> </p><p><br /> "We move the bed out so they can get the polling booth in," said Mrs Bond. "He's left his television in there."<br /> </p><p><br /> She added: "I don't insist on people taking off their shoes before they come in. I'll Hoover later."<br /> </p>

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