UKIP having a cow about "folded" ballot papers

**Spacehopper383** · 04-06-2009, 22:32

Just got in from spending the day as a poll clerk and this message was passed to us about 10 O clock this morning, our first reaction was "You don't need to folder the ballot paper in the first place" and "Why did nobody think to open the paper up fully to reveal all the parties" But after spending 15 hours with the great unwashed I can quite understand as we have had to deal with what must have been the village idiot convention.
Some of the questions included "which way up should I put the cross?" and "where it says put a cross can I put a tick?"
But the icing on the cake was at our training session a few days age when one of the women put her had up and said "who takes over after me?" the elections officer looks at her and says "what do you mean?" and she says "well I'm working from 7 to 10, who takes over?" when it was explained to her that it was 7am to 10pm that she would have to work she stands up and says "I can't be expected to work that long and promptly quit her position as a clerk.
Life you just can't make it up.

**Sympathetic_Reaction** · 05-06-2009, 07:53

Spacehopper, just interested...do you get paid for it?

S_R

**Speedy** · 05-06-2009, 08:01

Heh, they did fold the paper at my Preston polling center, but that's because it was very long. The only ones folded out were the BNP and some Christian outfit. No one complained. Mind you, it was the the best turn out I'd ever seen there and they were on the verge of sending for a 3rd box to put votes in! Looks like the current political climate is having the opposite effect of putting people off politics!

**maxi_77** · 05-06-2009, 08:18

Isn't just UKIP making lots of noise now to justify their poor results compared with the hype. Judging by the first council reports Labour is in for a real bashing, with the Tories being the main beneficiary

**Punch** · 05-06-2009, 08:18

Proportional Representation is obviously out of the question for this country if making a single "X" mark is so difficult.

Counting beyond three - now that would exercise the brain too much!

**brighton hippy** · 05-06-2009, 08:40

starship troopers
utopia its not that citizens are brighter more intelligent etc.
its just that going through difficult dangerous tasks to get the vote or be able to stand .
they demonstrate a commitment to public service and some of the would be politco's get culled before they can do any damage

no vote or seat for the shaved chimp failed to successfully complete a term.
no seat for tony rather allergic to hard graft

**walt_of_the_walts** · 05-06-2009, 09:43

Originally Posted by theoriginalphantom

Originally Posted by harareboy99

Originally Posted by walt_of_the_walts

Originally Posted by theoriginalphantom

This could be avoided, of course, by only allowing those people who are intelligent enough to fully unfold a piece of paper the right to vote.

If they were intelligent, they wouldn't be voting UKIP in the first place.

Cheers. Although i voted UKIP i still think i'd be able to unfold a bit of paper.

In that case you should be standing for election as a member of UKIP

UKIP can be summed up in 3 words :

Robert
Kilroy
Silk

Dr Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born 19 May 1942) is an English politician, independent Member of the European Parliament and a television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy. Before this he was a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) who stood successfully for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the 2004 election to the European Parliament, before leaving them in 2005 to found a new party called "Veritas", from which he in turn resigned as leader later the same year. He was the first contestant to be voted out of the 2008 edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!, and is an avid supporter of Everton FC.

Robert Kilroy Silk can be summed up in just 2 words:

Scouse
Git

**veritas** · 05-06-2009, 10:16

We were thanked for turning up at the Memorial hall in Sandiacre, turn out couldnt have been that poor could it? No folded sheets for us, the
responsibility for folding and fitting them in the ballot box was on our heads alone, we managed it, just.

**ugly** · 08-06-2009, 08:58

Obviously the postal papers were folded but in the peace and quiet of my own house it wasnt rushed and I had great pleasure in laughing at and eliminating almost all of the candidates (sadly in my mind only!) I made my own postal vote and also took my son to his first election as the muppets had his date of birth wrong and we had to kick off to get his vote sorted!