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Wilky Banned
United Kingdom
6,198 posts Joined: Mar, 2008
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 08:37:17
If ur voting today take a pen. Thats if u dont want ur vote changed. Some of these voting places only offer pencil, i wonder why that is?
Dj_triquatra Junior Member
United Kingdom
104 posts Joined: Mar, 2002
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 10:22:08
good call - anybody who is voting, post back in this topic if they did indeed have a pen at the polling station! very interesting :)
all this paper voting is very old fasioned!
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whispering Moderator
Finland
8,453 posts Joined: Nov, 2002
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 10:25:59
We use pencils here because of tradition. Theres lots of people overseeing the voting, vote boxes are sealed when their moved etc, if someone really wants to change the vote, they could just make a bunch of cards and replace some of the votes (Assuming they would get the chance to erase and rewrite your vote.)
quote:Originally posted by Dj_triquatra:
all this paper voting is very old fasioned!
But their the only ones that work. I would never ever trust electronic voting. Hacking is just way "too easy" for it to ever work. They tried it here once in few places and a bunch of votes weren't registered.
Alert moderatorEdited by - whispering on 2010/05/06 10:42:10
DarrenJ Advanced Member
Australia
2,626 posts Joined: Jul, 2003
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 11:41:07
quote:Originally posted by whispering:
We use pencils here because of tradition. Theres lots of people overseeing the voting, vote boxes are sealed when their moved etc, if someone really wants to change the vote, they could just make a bunch of cards and replace some of the votes (Assuming they would get the chance to erase and rewrite your vote.)
quote:Originally posted by Dj_triquatra:
all this paper voting is very old fasioned!
But their the only ones that work. I would never ever trust electronic voting. Hacking is just way "too easy" for it to ever work. They tried it here once in few places and a bunch of votes weren't registered.
Smoogie Advanced Member
United Kingdom
6,504 posts Joined: Mar, 2006
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 16:06:34
I have just voted, and guess what? I voated Lib Dem! It felt good and I toke a picture of it on my phone! Just so I can check I didn't make a mistake & just to prove a point!
Wilky Banned
United Kingdom
6,198 posts Joined: Mar, 2008
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 16:26:02
quote:Originally posted by Smoogie:
I have just voted, and guess what? I voated Lib Dem! It felt good and I toke a picture of it on my phone! Just so I can check I didn't make a mistake & just to prove a point!
i voted BNP i was going to take a pic but didnt..
If it ever goes to hung parliment and we vote again i will be taking a pic...
Who was the 1st vote option on your paper out of interest? BNP was the 1st on mine... Green party on misses
Smoogie Advanced Member
United Kingdom
6,504 posts Joined: Mar, 2006
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 18:28:26
quote:Originally posted by Wilky:
Who was the 1st vote option on your paper out of interest? BNP was the 1st on mine... Green party on misses
Conservative I think. We had Labour, Lib Dem, UKIP & an Independent. BnP are nowhere to be seen round here & no one is standing as Green or any other small party.
whispering Moderator
Finland
8,453 posts Joined: Nov, 2002
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 18:34:52
If i were a UK citizen i would probably vote for UKip, Which is a bit strange since i disagree with their main objective, but otherwise they seem on spot.
Anyway, hope you all vote, democracy does never and will never work if you dont vote.
Dj_triquatra Junior Member
United Kingdom
104 posts Joined: Mar, 2002
Posted - 2010/05/06 : 18:45:32
quote:Originally posted by Wilky:
yea if no candidate they wont be on. We got 3 standing round here... Very good support round here
yea - dont think we've ever had one, i highly highly doubt we ever will as this area is quite well off ;)
incidently - it was a pencil, and the lib-dems were first on the list.
precisely because of the first past the post system it wont make too much difference at all wether i voted or not as this is a lib-dem safe seat, i would have to live in a constituence where it was a "swing" seat, so that the lib-dems would gain another seat...
of course it would make a difference if i was voting Conservative, as that would be a vote against lib-dems and against the safe seat..but as i was voting lib-dem i was basically throwing a spoonful of water into an already filled lake. in comparison to the conserv's small tarn.
all ive done is secure a seat which is already uber-secure. my vote would have made a difference had i lived else where in the country...
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