[WillowTheWhisp]

It could have come from Argos. They have little pens there too.

I've always voted with a pencil and if it were to be rubbed out there would still be a trace of the mark on the paper and I'm pretty sure that paper would then arouse suspicion. I'm still not happy with the postal voting system though which is so obviouslsy open to abuse.

One very interesting point here is that Busman lives in the next street to me but we hadn't noticed that he had a different polling station so we both went to the one I always go to and they ticked my number off or wrote it down or whatever they do before you go in, then they ticked his off too! (but of course it must have been someone else's) Only when we got inside did we realise that his street didn't feature and he didn't have ballot papers. What happens when the person turns up to vote with the number they mistook his for? Hopefully the fact that their address hasn't been checked off will mean they still get a vote.