Reform, and the death of the Tory Party
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matticus
Legendary Member
They told him it was a new high-class burger joint with "extras".
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
One can only assume that they don't want women to vote for them.
secretsqirrel
Über Member
FTFY
TailWindHome
Senior Member
You didn't think they were going to stop at defining what a woman was?
Pross
Über Member
Whilst at the same time going on about Muslims and their attitudes to women when the opportunity arises.
icowden
Pharaoh
Interesting news from the Gorton and Denton By-Election:
An election observer group has claimed its team witnessed "concerningly high levels" of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Family voting is an offence that can be committed when a person casting a ballot in an election is joined in a polling booth by someone who intends to influence how they vote.
Electoral law protects the secrecy of ballots in polling stations.
Democracy Volunteers said they attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending 30 to 45 minutes in each.
The group said it had seen family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed.
The group said they observed a sample of 545 individuals casting their vote and saw 32 cases of family voting in total, including nine cases in one polling station.
John Ault, director of Democracy Volunteers, said: "Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton.
"Based on our assessment of today's observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10-year history of observing elections in the UK.
"We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high.
"In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby we saw family voting in 12% of polling stations, affecting 1% of voters.
"In Gorton and Denton, we observed family voting in 68% of polling stations, affecting 12% of those voters observed."
An election observer group has claimed its team witnessed "concerningly high levels" of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Family voting is an offence that can be committed when a person casting a ballot in an election is joined in a polling booth by someone who intends to influence how they vote.
Electoral law protects the secrecy of ballots in polling stations.
Democracy Volunteers said they attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending 30 to 45 minutes in each.
The group said it had seen family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed.
The group said they observed a sample of 545 individuals casting their vote and saw 32 cases of family voting in total, including nine cases in one polling station.
John Ault, director of Democracy Volunteers, said: "Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton.
"Based on our assessment of today's observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10-year history of observing elections in the UK.
"We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high.
"In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby we saw family voting in 12% of polling stations, affecting 1% of voters.
"In Gorton and Denton, we observed family voting in 68% of polling stations, affecting 12% of those voters observed."
BoldonLad
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How do you control “family voting” with postal voting?
It has long been claimed that “dodgy” practices happen with postal votes.
Interestingly, it is always those who didn’t get elected who claim this.
It has long been claimed that “dodgy” practices happen with postal votes.
Interestingly, it is always those who didn’t get elected who claim this.
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First Aspect
Legendary Member
I think Reform should have a policy of making polling booths extremely small.
bobzmyunkle
Veteran
Fattist.
Psamathe
Guru
Apparently the "observers" are not allowed to raise issues "on the spot" with officials ie if they see something illegal they are not allowed to go over to the supervising officials and point out the issue.
That said I'd have hope that the officials running the Polling Station should have been seeing what was going on and addressing it and not seen much about why they weren't (yet) but then probably the massive collapse of Labour is far more newsworthy.
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
I've genuinely no idea what she's on. Or what she's trying to say. This is not persuasive writing coming from an ordered mind: it reads more like five random tweets done in haste, by someone who has no idea how she comes across.
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briantrumpet
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That's quite an achievement, to be fair.
