I thought my vote was secret?
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I voted last night, walked in and handed the card with my name on to a bloke sitting at the desk. He writes the number off the card on to his list.
Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
aussiebruce said:
I voted last night, walked in and handed the card with my name on to a bloke sitting at the desk. He writes the number off the card on to his list.
Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
You are correct. The vote is secret in that your next door neighbour doesn't know who you voted for, unless you tell him. Or your next door neighbour has the list of reference codes for every voter in the country, and manages to find your particular voting card. Fortunately, it's not China here, so I wouldn't worry about it.Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
I wonder if it's all worth it. 'Voting' gave us the mess we currently have - not surprising when you combine the proportion of idiots who vote and the machinations of politicians after that.
Being on the electoral register means you simply become a number and have to pay tax. Frankly I'm struggling to think of any benefits right now.
Being on the electoral register means you simply become a number and have to pay tax. Frankly I'm struggling to think of any benefits right now.
[/quote]You are correct. The vote is secret in that your next door neighbour doesn't know who you voted for, unless you tell him. Or your next door neighbour has the list of reference codes for every voter in the country, and manages to find your particular voting card. Fortunately, it's not China here, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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TBH I don't mind if my neighbour knows how I vote. It's the people that want to know that I don't want to know?
I'm not sure why I don't want them to know, I just don't.
NiceCupOfTea said:
O/T but vaguely relevant:
Why is there always an old dear on the door asking for your voting card on the way out? Is it some way of estimating numbers who have voted, are they recycling it for you, or are they just nosey and getting your name/address for free?
They (for there are sometimes more than one) are members of the main political parties. What they are doing is collecting the numbers of the people who have voted so they can see if any local members of the party they belong to have not voted - those that haven't will get a phone call in the evening to suggest they make their way to the polling station.Why is there always an old dear on the door asking for your voting card on the way out? Is it some way of estimating numbers who have voted, are they recycling it for you, or are they just nosey and getting your name/address for free?
You are not obliged to show them your card (indeed you are not obliged to bring your card with you to vote), they are nothing to do with the official voting process.
aussiebruce said:
I voted last night, walked in and handed the card with my name on to a bloke sitting at the desk. He writes the number off the card on to his list.
Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
Why on earht is an Aussie voting in UK elections anyway.....? Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
Votes are confidential I beleive, not secret.
I had no voting card for them to read a number off, they just got it from another list.
Tony*T3 said:
aussiebruce said:
I voted last night, walked in and handed the card with my name on to a bloke sitting at the desk. He writes the number off the card on to his list.
Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
Why on earht is an Aussie voting in UK elections anyway.....? Girl hands me a long yellow voting slip and gives the guy the number off the slip, which he writes down next to the reference number off my card?
Now you don’t have to be too smart to figure someone will pick a voting slip up, look down the list and see who voted for whom.
Seriously am I correct in my assumption or do I have it totally wrong and there is another explanation for it?
Votes are confidential I beleive, not secret.
I had no voting card for them to read a number off, they just got it from another list.
2) I even made sure i said whom instead of who and the diction police still get me
3) so they got your reference number off another list. same result.
Yes, if someone who was powercraved and a control freak with marxist aspirations wanted (thank goodness we don't have any of them in Govt/Power) they could determine exactly who voted for which party.
It was something I questioned the first time I ever voted - but the answer given was that this is to prevent people claiming they are someone else and voting and so they have a count of votes which can be checked against the number of votes in the boxes taken from each station to ensure all boxes (and the votes inside) are counted.
It was something I questioned the first time I ever voted - but the answer given was that this is to prevent people claiming they are someone else and voting and so they have a count of votes which can be checked against the number of votes in the boxes taken from each station to ensure all boxes (and the votes inside) are counted.
Tony*T3 said:
Why on earht is an Aussie voting in UK elections anyway.....?
Thanks to the Representation of the People Act 1918 (allowing Commonwealth citizens to vote in UK elections), he can.... And as aussiebruce lives here, I guess he actually cares about what goes on in this country...
The worrying thing isn’t them figuring out who voted for which party.
Remember a book called ‘Spycatcher’ by Peter Wright? All the fuss the government made trying to get it banned. The allegations the government said they were trying to ban it for were small stuff.
There were other things Wright claimed to have had knowledge of. The involvement of some MI6 officers in the fixing of a British general election was one.
Remember a book called ‘Spycatcher’ by Peter Wright? All the fuss the government made trying to get it banned. The allegations the government said they were trying to ban it for were small stuff.
There were other things Wright claimed to have had knowledge of. The involvement of some MI6 officers in the fixing of a British general election was one.
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