Never Mind the Ballots
Sep. 3rd, 2007 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningOh, and whilst I am thinking about politics, there has been more scandal about the ballots in the Scottish elections in May.
The BBC News (Scotland) website has the details. It turns out that a large numbers of votes were rejected without scrutiny. Apparently, this is possibly illegal.
On the other hand, the error I thought most heinous wasn't acted on: the Scotsman must have got it wrong. (I know this since the Scotsman had said that a rejected vote on one part of the paper would cause the whole paper to be rejected; whilst what the BBC says happened is that a rejected vote on one part of the paper lead to the paper being placed in the "OK" pile if the other vote was valid - and hence not examined. I don't think I can have it both ways!)
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white_hart for prompting my headline after she used something very similar recently!
The BBC News (Scotland) website has the details. It turns out that a large numbers of votes were rejected without scrutiny. Apparently, this is possibly illegal.
On the other hand, the error I thought most heinous wasn't acted on: the Scotsman must have got it wrong. (I know this since the Scotsman had said that a rejected vote on one part of the paper would cause the whole paper to be rejected; whilst what the BBC says happened is that a rejected vote on one part of the paper lead to the paper being placed in the "OK" pile if the other vote was valid - and hence not examined. I don't think I can have it both ways!)
And many thanks to
white_hart for prompting my headline after she used something very similar recently!