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People in the UK are bringing their dogs to vote - and Twitter is going crazy for it

Barking mad.
7.00pm, 7 May 2015
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ACROSS THE UK, people are heading to their polling stations to help decide who should run the country.

Naturally, people are taking to Twitter to announce that they’ve marked their card and the hashtag #IVoted is now the number one trend in the UK.

However, another vote-related trend is coming up behind it – because people are bringing their dogs to vote.

The hashtag #DogsAtPollingStation is the number two trend in the UK and even broke the world top ten.

Here’s what it looks like:

If you ask us, they’re barking mad.

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