OT Them leaflets, further rumour.

[harry]

There is a rumour afoot that to add insult, those eagerly awaited leaflets were printed in Germany. Can anybody verify this?

[Brian Gaff]

If one has arrived here, I'd not know. Does anyone know tha actual question on the form we will be doing? IE is it going to be so misleading that yes means no? Brian

[tim...]

There's more than a rumour, it was in an official statement

but what's the issue here?

I doubt that the Germany company won the job because of any ideology (of lack of), they presumably won it by being the cheapest

tim

[Nick]

In message , harry writes

OT for the question, but some may find amusing. A friend works as a postie on a rural route with mostly postboxes. She delivered the leaflets and the next day she diligently collected a large quantity from the boxes with messages across the front, the most polite being 'f*ck off'.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Nick a écrit :

If these are marked by whom ever receives one 'RETURN TO SENDER', does the Post Office have a duty to return them?

[whisky-dave]

I wonder what marks they'll allow in the boxes to indicate a yes or a no.

[whisky-dave]

They could have won it because they were the most expensive or maybe someone in the company also has a political career.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If only I could do that with the piles of s**te I get from Virgin. Never been a customer and never will be. They make the very worst government department seem positively parsimonious with paper.

[jgh]

A mark that clearly indicates a selection of no more options than allowed, that does not identify the voter.

So, tick, cross, smiley face. I've see c*ck-and-balls allowed as long as it's within a single box indicating a single option. Don't use 'NO' as that's ambigious. Are you indicating that's the option you've selected ("a mark agains one option"), or are you indicating that's not the option you want. 'YES' in one box and 'NO' in another box would be a clear indication. In a multi-member election 1,2,3 is acceptable as long as it's not more marks than you are allowed to select (eg only use two marks if there are two vacancies) and if it's not a preferential election the actual numbers are ignored.

Minor strays outside the box are allowed, but big strays could be interpreted as crossing out the whole ballot. Names, addresses, etc are void as it identifies the voter. There are plenty of examples of spoiled ballot papers available online.

[whisky-dave]

Yes I rememebr that too, the key thing is it;s up to the retrurning officer ( think that's what they call them) whether a mark is counted or not and we see that anything within the boarder is a yes it appeared.

That would confuse the counters, I'd be like putting Rod in a barrel and telling him to piss in the corner.

Yes I have wondered whenther or not the 'voter' that drew an accurate picture of a penis inside the box wanted that vote to count or whehter he had planned it to be a spoilt paper.