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The UK is USA-Lite, so there will be some tutting and some huffing and puffing, no one will mention hanging chads, the count will be verified and the SNP won't get an overall majority.
If someone important gets really excited about this, there will be an enquiry, which will make recommendations, which will mostly be ignored.
I'm slightly baffled as to why 100,000 people decided to spoil their papers.
I'm interested in who gets into bed with who.
The LibDems say they'll talk to the ones who get the most seats, and that looks like a close call right now..
My bet is on an SNP/Lib Dem "partnership" possibly plus Greens. "The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson
The chances of the proverbial pensioner being able to make sense of it seemed minimal.
You've got to be kidding me. Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
I don't object to a postal ballot if the logistics make it poor value. But I do mind if the postal process is overcomplicated.
Is it gerrymandering or incompetence? Hard to say. The case for the prosecution is that move to postal voting was introduced after the council gained a solid Tory majority. And the form really was designed incredibly badly.
But for the defence, the main towns still have polling stations, and I'd guess the votes from a few villages won't swing a seat unless voting is extremely close - which it usually isn't out here.
Is it not possible to challenge the party-list seats if the number of spoilt ballots is larger than the margin by which the last seat was allocated? Bush is a symptom, not the disease.
My (unresearched) understanding is that the returning officer's word is final. Candidates can demand a recount if the result is very close - and sometimes do - but a court challenge is unlikely.
I don't remember such a thing happening in the UK.
However there is no provision for re-voting because electors misunderstood the instructions.
This will of course be used as an excuse to attack the principle of proportional representation. Perhaps the lesson should be that we should adopt one system of PR and use it for all elections instead of having a different one for each type of election (especially if more than one is used on the same day).
Perhaps the lesson should be that we should adopt one system of PR and use it for all elections instead of having a different one for each type of election...
When first read I expanded "PR" to "Public Relations."
The sentence works either way, I suppose, depending on one's basic snark level.
;-) She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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