Re: Local Elections on Thursday.
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Originally Posted by jambutty
(Post 418950)
Well I’ve done my duty in the farce that they call a secret ballot.
My polling card had a number on it.
The list of voters for that area had my name against that number.
The voting slip had a number on the back and a numbered counterfoil.
The clerk wrote my polling list number against a list of voting slip numbers.
Thus it would be possible to relate a person’s vote to a particular person.
Not very secret is it?
Why all these inter-related numbers? We are told that it is to help to prevent voting fraud. Well maybe it does and maybe it doesn’t but it does compromise secrecy and that makes the secret ballot in the UK an out and out farce.
In this day and age with the advent of computers and text recognition software it would be possible for a database to be compiled of who votes for whom. Who knows if this has already been done but what’s the betting that some time in the not too distant future there will be a database of voters votes.
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Well I can say, categorically, that the candidates are not notified about how people vote. Parties do have a fairly good idea of who votes for them by going around and visiting people and talking to them, so when it comes to elections and knocking up they pretty much know who to contact but don't always get it spot on.
As for the numbers, there has to be some way of verifying each person, they have to ensure that there is no cheating and this is the best way to do it.
However, that said, last year I did identify three ways in which an unscrupulous candidate could cheat or manipulate the vote. |
