Local Elections May 2024
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farfromtheland
Regular AND Goofy
Sadly, spoiled ballot numbers are no longer reported everywhere. I've tried to get it done here with no joy. It's a stitch-up.
London-wide Assembly member voting was party-based this time. I didn't read the small-print in the pamphlet, but the main part of it implied you could vote for an individual, so I turned up with one in mind. Gave the ballot paper to the presiding officer with a note in protest.
It's a problem for me that with that style proportional representation the party gets to choose its list order. Needn't be that way.
multitool
Guest
Looking forward to the inevitable Laurence Fox meltdown.
Also very pleased that Susan Hall, specifically, has failed. Her campaign was based on thinly-veiled racist and anti-environmental rhetoric it would have been unconscionable for her to have prevailed.
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icowden
Legendary Member
Yes, on my local NextDoor we had some spectacularly nasty racists posting in support of her and against Khan.
winjim
Welcome yourself into the new modern crisis
A deliberately spoiled ballot is counted exactly the same as an accidentally spoiled ballot. I know the advice from the electoral commission is to make every effort to count every vote, even if it's been completed incorrectly but a spoiled ballot still has little or no meaning. Likewise declining to participate in the process can also be interpreted as apathy so neither method of abstention is really meaningful. I think it depends on if you consider affecting the turnout stats to be significant or not.
AuroraSaab
Squire
Yes, it would depend if and how the spoiled ballot was counted. I was thinking more of countries where all the candidates are from one party, or when some households spoiled their census form as a suffragette supporting protest in 1911.
I do think not voting can be a form of protest. Candidates can't claim they have a mandate for much if only 20% of the electorate turn out.
I do think not voting can be a form of protest. Candidates can't claim they have a mandate for much if only 20% of the electorate turn out.
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
I'd seen so much muck from the Hall campaign that I switched my vote from the Green candidate to Khan on the ABC principle. I needn't have worried but I'm thankful so few supported her.
farfromtheland
Regular AND Goofy
There is hope!
farfromtheland
Regular AND Goofy
I voted Khan as my second preference to a local housing campaigner last time and I felt ok with that because he promised to review the Silvertown Tunnel plan.
His review turned out to be smarmy hogwash though so I couldn't do it again.
Beebo
Veteran
Khan should have just reminded him that he had just lost to a man with a plastic bin on his head.
multitool
Guest
These people pose an actual physical danger to Khan. They are fascists after all
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
This is the kind of stuff I've been seeing.
View: https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1786749395888710010
View: https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1786749395888710010
