Ballot paper


My ballot paper tonight, just before I put my pencil cross on it in the voting booth. Our son came with us to vote in his first UK parliamentary election. We explained to him beforehand that he would need to make sure he voted for the candidate he intended to, as some of the party names are very similar. The Scottish Labour Party, and the Socialist Labour Party. The Scottish Liberal Democrats and the Liberal Party in Scotland.

No, I'm not sitting up all night to watch the results. Tomorrow morning will be soon enough.

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  1. ooh i thought about taking the camera in, but then thought I wouldn't be allowed to. We only had the 4 main parties on ours and i didn't notice until your post that the tories now have a tree as their logo - not sure why though. Kenneth voted on campus - he had 2 polling cards, one at home and one at university, but he phoned home to check on the procedure beforehand - he was quite excited by the prospect. x

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  2. Only three of the candidates have leaders who are allowed to appear on TV. The rest are not vested with the same legitimacy.

    Also these are candidates to sit in Westminster (London, Endgland). There is another election for Holyrood (Edinburgh, Scotland (where we both live)). Our US friends might find a parallel between this set up and the US Federal (Washington) and State Legislatures.

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  3. Wow, you sure have a lot of parties. That ballot looks too hard for many in my country to complete. We have many people here who just can't figure out how to read a ballot, and/or don't know how to mark just one name. It's sad. I hope your elections turn out well and that the winners are clear.

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  4. Interesting ballot, it looks old-fashioned. Ours are all counted by computer now, and I sometimes wonder about fraud that way. May the best candidate win!

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  5. 9 to choose from, we only had 4 at our place. Looks like a "hung parliament" though Linda:'(

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  6. This is a wonderful peek into your life. I love the little details!

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  7. Hmmmm....your politics is looking more and more like ours here in Canada. You sometimes have to wonder why we spend the time and money going through this process only to get the results we do.
    Smiles and have a great weekend sorting it all out!!!!

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  8. What?!!! You all use a pencil to vote??? No hanging chads??? No electronic ballots??? How positively...civilized!!! I remember when my mom had voting at our house when I was a kid, and the volunteers who worked it had to count and recount the ballots by hand...through the night until their count was the same two times in a row!!! A bit of room for error...but then electronic ballots can lose their electrical connection, and hanging chads can screw up the counting machines...there's always room for controversy over how the ballots are counted! (At least that's the case over here!)

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  9. Thank you! It's cool to see your voting ballot. Are all the votes done by paper or do you have an array of options? Some voting stations here will be electronic while others will be paper - all for the same election. It's cool to see so many names since America is mostly a two party government. Thanks for sharing!

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  10. I did wonder if I'd be stopped taking a photo, but I went to a booth as far away from the officials as possible. Difficult in the intimate setting of our local Roman Catholic nursery school. It's always nice to vote surrounded by soft toys and nature table displays and big cushions in the story corner.

    Yes, the pencil - I did wonder about the robustness of that, but I think it is pencils everywhere in the UK for voting. Any UK readers care to correct me if we have electronic voting anywhere?

    The Chieftess - I had to look up what a 'hanging chad' was. I mis-read it at first, and thought you'd written 'hanging chav', so was picturing sullen youths in hoodies hanging around polling stations.

    We have had some technical problems in this election. In some places in England a higher than normal turnout and claims of not enough officials to handle the the volume meant that polling stations closed at the end of the day with queues of people still waiting to vote.

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  11. Election has still given you a lot to think about, I see. You don´t need to watch it all the time. You have done your share.

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