Is there an ideal number of folds to give a ballot? I give mine one as it’s easier to stick them in a pile for counting but the lad before me had it folded up tight like a pocket hanky.
Honestly, this is how I feel about manual couting vs those evoting machines – I had the mispleasure of using them back in 2001 (just googled, it was 2002). The voting itself was grand, but it didn’t feel the same, and the results just being spat out at the end without the ceremony of having multiple counts was just bad (for us it was just the referrendum that was electronic though, so it was yes/no, rather than numbers, would have been more interesting if it was numbered maybe)
There’s something very reassuring about the counts, even if they can take days.
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Is there an ideal number of folds to give a ballot? I give mine one as it’s easier to stick them in a pile for counting but the lad before me had it folded up tight like a pocket hanky.
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Look of disgust
Honestly, this is how I feel about manual couting vs those evoting machines – I had the mispleasure of using them back in 2001 (just googled, it was 2002). The voting itself was grand, but it didn’t feel the same, and the results just being spat out at the end without the ceremony of having multiple counts was just bad (for us it was just the referrendum that was electronic though, so it was yes/no, rather than numbers, would have been more interesting if it was numbered maybe)
There’s something very reassuring about the counts, even if they can take days.
I watched that episode last night 🙂
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