For a start to stand in the election you need to be a registered party and put up something like £4,000in advance and only if you achieve over 5% of the vote will you get your Deposit back. So there is a very real and tangible barrier to standing in elections which is why Socialist Groups find it so difficult to put up cnadidates - this isn't the land of the free!
And spoiling the ballot paper? - what does that actually prove? I've stood in local elections all the spolit papers are sorted in a pile of about a few dozen and the parties argue about what the 'voter' was actually voting for so a percent of 'spolit' papers are actually mis-used as votes under the idea the voter was too stupid to know how to put an X in a box!
(And spoiling the ballot paper? - what does that actually prove? I've stood in local elections all the spolit papers are sorted in a pile of about a few dozen and the parties argue about what the 'voter' was actually voting for so a percent of 'spolit' papers are actually mis-used as votes under the idea the voter was too stupid to know how to put an X in a box!
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Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:43,
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Good for you for standingAnd I can see I will have to be very careful where I curl one out should I decide spoil my ballot.
Even if you can't stand yourself (or your group can't), then making your case to the other candidates is surely better than nothing. ("MLK advanced moaning" if you will)
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Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:48,
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Even if you can't stand yourself (or your group can't), then making your case to the other candidates is surely better than nothing. ("MLK advanced moaning" if you will)
Yes be very careful how you spoil your ballot paperone person put "X" in every box but 1 and they took it that it was a vote for the one without the X - whether the voter actually intended that or was expressing some form of Proportional Representation will never be known - but it was decided what the vote was by a totally unelected group of people speculating on it's meaning. Probably better to smear poo on the ballot sheet they wouldn;t touch it then or they would assume it was a vote for Brown :D
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Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:57,
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