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| Stiubhart O'Daighre |
MSPs can't even vote properlyMSPs can't even vote properlyWhilst voting for the deputy presiding officers there were 4 spoiled papers caused by people voting for more than one candidate!!! Were doomed 
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| William_Cleland |
Maybe some of them have a sense of humour? 
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| Stiubhart O'Daighre |
I thought that was removed right after the swearing in ceremony 
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| FALSYDE |
Labour MSPs, it just has to be. Their cv's say it all. | ||||
| Aventinian |
Um, isn't all the voting in Holyrood done by computer? | ||||
| Stiubhart O'Daighre |
No, all done by the quill and parchment!
http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=750642007 |
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| FALSYDE |
MSPs ballot mistakesComputer or no computer, put rubbish in you get rubbish out.The MSPs who cocked it up needed to mark their ballot paper in some way. However should those who made the mistake be Labour MSPs this error may have come about in a number of ways, multi choice, e.g. [a] low IQ; [b] missed out on reading, 'riting or 'rithmatic education; [c] size of knuckles made it too hard to hold the pen/paper; [d] either one, combination, or all of the above. The Holyrood election was however cocked up by means of a different set of circumstances largely due to Douglas Alexander the Secretary of State for Scotland failing to read the Report he commissioned. Whether this was due to lazyness, stupidity, incompetence, poor reading standard or any combination of these will only be known once the matter is looked into by the Scots-Canadian electoral expert, a descendant of emigrants who fled the dire world they felt they lived in back home in Scotland. No change there then. |
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| Karenisabitch |
Why does everyone assume it was a mistake?
Maybe people did not want to vote for either Margo or a Tory, but could not abstain so they voted for both to spoil the paper... There were four of them - I think I know which four... |
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| skip |
yes mostly electronic, but elections for presiding officers are an exception because these are the only secret ballots they have so they go back to the old fashioned way edit: Also a wee word of warning about electronic voting .... ... i recall in previous sittings that MSPs needed their swipe card to log in to vote. you sometimes get cases of new members pressing wrong buttons and voting the wrong way! and some not voting at all. I hope they have all had some practice because there could be some tight votes in the months ahead!! |
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| Aventinian |
Re: MSPs ballot mistakes
Yep, but if it was Nats who made the error, then of course it'll be the fault of the English... |
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| Aventinian |
Oh, I didn't realise it was a secret vote. How odd. |
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| Holebender |
Re: MSPs ballot mistakes
Only if those Nats happened to be English. |
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