AS the father of a soldier who is stationed in Germany and has served in Iraq, I have his proxy vote.

On May 1 I took my voting card and proxy letter to my polling station at the Church Rooms at Link Top, to be told I was at the correct place to cast my vote, but I would have to travel 1.5 miles to Priory Lodge to cast my son's vote.

He is registered in the same house, in the same ward, with the same candidates as myself, yet the votes have to be cast at different polling

station!

With the politicians whinging that apathy is threatening democracy, I ask why someone who is expected to serve his country is being effectively disenfranchised by sheer bureaucratic lunacy?

Politicians be warned; don't dare set a foot on my garden path.

Terry Ford, Clerkenwell Crescent, Malvern.