People were voting at Beau Sejour, Les Maingys Activity Centre and Styx Community Centre yesterday.
As the doors opened at 8am at Beau Sejour, about seven voters were already waiting to complete their ballots.
By mid-morning there was steady stream of people at the leisure centre.
Thomas Oswin, 35, said he used just five of his votes. For him, housing and sustainability were the big issues he was focusing on.
‘I decided I would rather go for the ones I definitely wanted.’
He is visually impaired, but the election volunteers were on hand to help him vote.
Andy Carre, 55, voted for 33 candidates, focusing on those with ideas on tax and how to make Guernsey more sustainable. He was also interested in housing.
‘We have three children in higher education and there is an issue about whether they can come back [after university],’ he said.
He was concerned that there had been a lot of inertia in the last two States terms and was keen to see more done.
‘It has been frustrating.’
His wife Clare, 53, will be voting on Wednesday with their youngest child, who is 18. She has picked her own 33 candidates, but they are not all the same as her husband’s.
In her case, one aspect that interested her was trying to get more women into the States. Of the 82 candidates, there are 27 women. In the current States, eight of the 38 members are women.
Caroline Cocks, 62, managed to cast 37 of her possible 38 votes.
She said that she had done her homework and attended five hustings, as well as combing the election booklet.
She quickly whittled down to 45 candidates, but then as she trimmed more, she could not find 38 she liked.
She works during the week and welcomed the weekend voting slot.
‘Wednesday would have been difficult, so having three days is a really good option.’
Couple Marcel Marquis, 60, and Joanne Alder, 59, went to vote together. She chose to use 26 of her votes, while he used 29.
‘We read the book and listened to some of the interviews, which have been quite useful,’ he said. ‘But I’m not sure this is the ideal [voting] system. There has been a lot to take in.’
The last batches of postal votes for this week’s election were posted last week.
A few islanders have complained that they were still waiting for their postal to arrive.
A States spokesman said that if any islanders had not yet received their postal votes they should contact the States election office.
Islanders who missed the postal deadline can still vote, as the completed postal vote packs can be put in the Sir Charles Frossard House post box, or taken to any polling station and given to a polling station official, as long as that is done before the polls close at 8pm on Wednesday.
However postal votes can only be accepted at a polling station if they are accompanied by the ID verification form and return envelope issued in the postal ballot pack.
Postal votes without the accompanying form and envelopes can not be accepted by polling station staff and the votes will not be counted.
