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European elections - Is it REALLY a secret ballot?
- Thread starter Goldstone Rapper
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Lord Bracknell
On fire
Some of us are old enough to have voted in the days when only the names of candidates were printed on the ballot papers - with no mention of the political party that they were representing.
fataddick
Well-known member
To answer the original post: The UK is the only country in Europe that doesn't have secret ballots. In all elections in the UK (local, general, Euro, etc) the number on your ballot paper is registered against your name so your vote is easily traceable. Only Singapore, the Philippines and Nigeria also number ballot papers in this way. Other countries (eg Malaysia, Pakistan) used to, but stopped after complaints. Western World wise, only in the UK - the world capital of CCTV - do we put up with this sort of invasion of privacy shit...
GreersElbow
New member
It's a conspiracy. The lizards at the top of the European Commission ordered their lizard counterparts in each constituent member state, those states will then hunt down the anti-federalist anti-lizard establishment and drain them of their blood in which they bath in and celebrate at the Bohemian Grove.
If you think I'm wrong, prove me wrong. You're just ignorant of fact.
No, it'll just be counted as a 'UKIP' count.
SPLITTER!
If you think I'm wrong, prove me wrong. You're just ignorant of fact.
I drew a picture of a jizzing cock on my ballot paper and wrote **** on it a few times.
Is that spoilt
No, it'll just be counted as a 'UKIP' count.
SPLITTER!
Lord Bracknell
On fire
As part of my sociological study of a community in Italy (back in the seventies), I took a particular interest in voting patterns at a local level. There was one village near where I lived where the Italian Communist Party managed to attract the votes of 103 per cent of the electorate. The fact that votes were untraceable meant that it was impossible to investigate whatever dodgy electoral practice was going on.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
When do we get the results?
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Sunday.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
Kin el, back when god was a boy it used to be next day, thought by now it would have been early hours of the morning.
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
I saw that and assumee they were the UKIP before finding them near the bottom. I wonder how many votes they picked up from over keen xenophodes.
Or maybe Monday depending how long it takes...........
Official UKIP got a spikey pube from me whilst the foolsters got one of the drops of jizz.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
Some countries don't vote until Sunday
Our lovely intelligence services definitely used to take the communist ballot papers after counting was over and the result declared. Got to have the names of all those reds under the bed.
No reason to think similar dubious practices don't take place now.
No reason to think similar dubious practices don't take place now.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
European elections have always been different. The UK and the Netherlands vote on a Thursday, other countries vote later (up until Sunday). No results are declared until after everyone has stopped voting.
I remember the 1994 European Parliament election when, between the vote and the results, I went to Horsham to watch Sussex play a Sunday League cricket match. Who should I bump into at the game, but one of the candidates ... that nice David Bellotti. This was, of course, before he'd been rumbled as a man presiding over the intended death of the Albion. I've often wondered how things might have turned out differently, if he'd won a seat at Strasbourg in that election.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
You mean you've voted for a party that has picked up a copy of the electoral register? As a former candidate in council elections, I can report that the Returning Officer gives these documents to any candidate who asks for one. It's an easy task to address leaflets personally to every elector, particularly since the register now comes in both a paper and an electronic form.Have people not noticed how the party you've voted for previously sends you leaflets with your name on
But I don't get leaflets for the parties I've never voted for though - whilst others do
Lord Bracknell
On fire
If anyone is interested, there were Council elections in Hastings today. In most wards, UKIP didn't even bother to put up a candidate. So much for their claim to be a serious political party.
pastafarian
Well-known member
Have people not noticed how the party you've voted for previously sends you leaflets with your name on
oddly enough was round at a mates election night 2001.There was a knock at the door and a Labour activist asked my mates wife if she had voted yet this year and would she be voting Labour again.
She was most shocked to find out he knew how she voted last time but not half as shocked as my Tory mate,(choking on his dinner) who considered it worthy of an act of divorce.