Comments on: What went wrong on election night

By: duncan2

duncan2 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:33:04 +0000

Very interesting report by The Open Rights Group on the complete shambles of e-voting (in England) and electronic vote counting in Scotland:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/e-voting-main/

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:26:58 +0000

Yeah, well I don’t think anyone is advocating deliberately making the system complicated in order to bar stupid people. That would obviously be wrong. But when you hear of numbers in the range of 100,000 spoilt ballots, it makes you wonder.

By: Deacon Barry

Deacon Barry — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:54:16 +0000

No slogans. Name and party only. The problem with complaining about people being too stupid to vote ( and I am as guilty as everyone else about this) is that being stupid should not be a bar to democracy. Everybody from their eighteenth birthday onwards must have the right to vote. Once you start restricting it, by making the voting process too complicated for the mentally challenged you erode everyone’s freedom

By: leyton.org » Scottish Elections: Some detail on the rejected ballots

leyton.org » Scottish Elections: Some detail on the rejected ballots — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:37:25 +0000

[...] It’s a shame that the sample ballot the press are seemingly obliged to show seems so clear and, well, concise. Here in Glasgow the regional ballot was huge, and the print quality wasn’t especially crisp. I’m also decidedly unimpressed with party names being abused (eg. “Alex Salmond for 1st Minister – SNP” to get them at the top of the list (More on this from Doctor Vee)). [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:19:51 +0000

Actually, I keep hearing about this “how to vote” leaflet, but have never seen it – I have to assume whoever was meant to deliver it to us was put off by the door entry system where you actually have to get someone to buzz you in. Apply this who a few thousand other tenements and blocks of secure flats (perhaps significantly the flats of older people who are constantly told not to buzz anyone in that they don’t know) and I’m betting there are some big piles of “how to vote” leaflets sitting somewhere having been chucked away by lazy delivery people.

(A friend of mine who lives about a street away but doesn’t have a door entry system to their tenement was deluged with election leaflets; we got about six, so it really could be a factor).

By: Richard Havers

Richard Havers — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:24:23 +0000

Really interesting post.

I think a party’s name is a party’s name and the AS for FM was a farce. It was obviously legally correct but morally, to me at least it was wrong.

There’s more HERE on my views of the legal challenge that is threatened.