I took my mum along to her polling station at lunchtime and we were the only ones there. She told me not to come into the booth with her (as she has cataracts and could only just read the paper) and I said "oh, I wouldn't dare, you've got a bigger [walking/symbol] stick than me!" and the ladies running the place said they'd had a visit from the police to check that there hadn't been any fights!

I think Hackney still uses the same ballot boxes they've had since the year dot, great hulking black metal boxes that you have to fold the now-massive papers many times to actually get them in.