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Very good point Mr Goldberg

Postal voting
From Mr Daniel Goldberg
Sir, Mr Brian Mitchell (letter, December 18) judges the success of postal voting on the basis of turnout.

Turnout at all elections has been in a long and steady decline. Yet voting has not become more difficult over this time; polling stations have not become less numerous or harder to find. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with our present method of voting (ie, the stubby pencil). Voters are simply disillusioned with the political system. Perhaps an increasingly sophisticated electorate is becoming fed up with the oversimplification of complex issues.

Postal voting would artificially raise turnout and disguise the very real disengagement between the electorate, the political process and the Westminster village.

A none of the above box on ballot papers should serve to raise turnout smartly and for the right reasons, as well as providing a much-needed kick in the ego to our elected representatives