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Dogs’ Day Out: When Brexit Voters Brought Pets to Polling Stations

#DogsAtPollingStations is the best thing you will see on the internet today.

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On the Brexit referendum day, it’s pouring rain as well as adorable dogs in the United Kingdom.

Confused? Let us elaborate.

Before polling began in the much anticipated Brexit referendum, Philip Cowley, a British political scientist and academic at Queen Mary University of London tweeted out a list of 10 predictions for polling day.

Number three on his list was this:

#DogsAtPollingStations is the best thing you will see on the internet today.
Cowley predicted dogs at the polling stations during the referendum. (Photo: Twitter)
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And boy, was he right! As torrential rains lashed out in parts of London and south-east England, voters waded through waterlogged streets to cast their votes, and they brought their canine companions along.

#dogsatpollingstations has become a raging hashtag on Twitter, as people posted pictures of their dogs at the station.

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It all started in 2015, during the General Elections, when English journalist Evan Davis asked:

That single tweet opened up a fantastic trend on Twitter, and the hashtag #dogsatpollingstations was coined.

A year later, the trend continues, and is keeping the morale of voters high on an overcast polling day.

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