Easton Lib Dems put out a last minute leaflet last night saying that it's too close to call there and that the Greens have conceded they can't win. Obviously this is a complete lie
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i used to go leafleting for the labour party when i was a kid (dad was a LP campaigner). it's fairly common. mainly cause they struggle to get enough adults to go trudging in the rain rather than out of cowardice though.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
oh oh oh you thinking of voting for TUSC then?
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
I tend to agree, I remember Blair trying to claim that low turnout was because people were happy. Much harder to spin 'your all scum' scrawled on a ballot paper in the same way.
On the mandate issue, spoilt ballots reduce the majority of the winning party and therefore reduces heir legitimacy as hey have secured less of the votes cast. What we need hough is a campaign to get people to write the same message on their ballot paper. May I suggest the following: 'down with parliament, down withe bourgeois democracy, forward to international working class revolution.'
Usually though I am too lazy to go to the polling station to bother.
Yeah it's a variation on recurring themes. Greens in Easton reckon they can win, Lib Dems obviously worried they can't hold onto the seat if the Greens keep picking up votes from former Lib Dems
Twas but a cheap shot/joke fella! But the last tory that was door knocking round here did get threatend at a few houses.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Burn the polling station down?
On the spoilt ballot papers thing, I'm really torn now between muscovyduck's and emanymton's points, and butchers' and others' points. Lucky there's no elections here today eh ...
mine's the local community centre.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I bet the lib-dem had to pay them though - knowingly putting them in immediate psychical danger at the same time. The rats.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Hey it worked for the muslimsmine's the local community centre.
Sadly I am just an awkward old bastard that will try to ensure the continual annoyance of vote counters.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Spoilt papers with abusive messages are just ignored, they're not talked about - they literally mean nothing beyond inflating turnout figures. No one cares. Canididates don't really see them never mind wring their hands thinking oh no i've got to change the entire system now. The agent has a look, nods says yes i agree these are all spoiled - and that's it.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
fellow members of the working class
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the people working at election counts will be members of council staff who have volunteered for the role. so they may be managers just as easily as members of library staff or social workers.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
heir legitimacy nothing to do with elections.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
When i was supervising a ward count at the last local elections I took great pleasure in going through with the candidates the spoilt papers and my decision about rejecting them. Especially the BNP member who I read out to the remarks on the ballot papers that referred to the BNP in as loud as voice as possible.He agreed that they were indeed spoilt.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
not even the agent normally. One of the merry hoard of bored party supporters making sure they get every vote possible.
The only way to get a response out of any of them is to put your cross over two candidates' box. That way they'll both waste some time arguing that its a vote for them (and it'll eventually be dumped as spoilt)
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yesIs it Australia were it is a legal duty to vote but at the bottom of the paper there is a None of the Above choice or have I dreamt this?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
They are paid though for that role.Managers usually get the supervisors jobs the counters where I am re mixture of low paid staff and local people. Our trade union argued very strongly that low paid staff rather than managers were recruited as counters
It is nice for them to have more than two piles to build it passes the time quicker. My dear wife will be one of them. She will be getting a nice wage for it too.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
they are paid, yes: but i never said they weren't.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
You should be writing "Proletarian Democracy" on it.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
They won't get anything like 100. I know they're riding a wave ATM but they didn't make any (net) gains in either the 2011 or 2012 local elections.
I reckon 20 seats would be a good result. Their share of the vote will be pretty good tho.
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