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Canary42 | 11:25 Wed 11th Dec 2019 | ChatterBank
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I was not aware of one or two of these. And a few are quite bizarre - for example you are not allowed to photograph your voting paper, but you can photograph your postal vote. And if you sign your ballot paper legibly then it is invalid and will not be counted. Whew !

Here's a Q & A article on the subject :- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50381748
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/// And if you sign your ballot paper legibly then it is invalid and will not be counted.//

may be invalid - I thought the invalid papers - possiby invalid - were all collected and they had to agree whether a valid vote could be discerned.

like 'Frack off ' opposite the labour candidate - and they discussed rationally whether that was a vote for ( valid ) or an anti-vote against ( invalid ) entry

like the general election in peaky blinders was invalid in that the candidates were at the polling stations wearing their stuff and there are rules against canvassing near a station. no it didnt get accepted in IMDB trivia....
neither did the unlikelihood of a telephone kiosk in a lettuce field
damn they
the candidates all got together and agreed that .....
A few elections ago there were people at the door to the polling station wearing Tory rosettes. They had clipboards and were asking people how they had voted. I didn’t tell them because I’m on the opposite end of the political spectrum to them and they ran the local shop so I knew them quite well.

Is it legal to wear a party rosette and ask how people voted?
"Suppose you've been drinking - can you still vote?
Yes. You can vote if you are drunk or under the influence of drugs, unless you are disruptive."

Fantastic. Seems all the Tories will still get their coke fulled votes in.
yeah the outside is not a polling station innit?

and yes they have exit polls and one time ( Thatcher ) when they got it really wrong they concluded later that a lot of people had er lied ( back)to them
A legible signature makes the vote invalid because it identifies the person making that vote.

It is possible to tell how named individuals voted but it's more involved than glancing at the ballot paper.

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