Send a query. Lucky dip. Any answers? Nooks and crannies. Semantic enigmas. The body beautiful. Red tape, white lies. Speculative science. This sceptred isle. Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. Reality: There is no legal requirement for ballot papers to be marked with a pencil. Pencils are provided inside polling booths, however pens are available from the Presiding Officer or voters can choose to use their own pen.
Pencils are used for practical reasons: with ink pens there is always a risk that they may dry out or spill; ink may cause some transfer of the mark the voter has made on the ballot paper when they fold it, potentially leading to their vote being rejected if, for example, it looks like they have voted for more candidates than they are entitled to. Reality: Poll cards are delivered for information; you do not need to take it with you to vote.
As long as your name is on the register being used in the polling station, and you have not applied to vote by post, you will be given a ballot paper in the polling station.
At present there is no requirement for voters to show identification at the polling station. Home Council and elections Elections and voting Myths about voting and registering to vote.
How would you rate the information on this page? Good Average Poor. If the result is close — whether it be between first and second places, or even third and fourth — any one of those standing has a right to ask for a recount until the result is clear. Candidates and political activists will be nervously awaiting the election results today.
But in exceptional circumstances, it is possible that — even after several recounts — two candidates might have recorded exactly the same score.
If that is the case, election rules state that the matter is settled there and then by luck of the draw. The Electoral Commission says its guidance suggests the candidates draw lots and gives two examples. The first is for the returning officer to write the names of the candidates on a slip of paper, put them in envelopes, jumble them up and select the winner.
People cast their votes in the election yesterday. The second is to put ballots cast for each of the candidates into a jar, shake it and then draw the winner. The spokesman said their rules do not actually give coin tossing as an example but that it is up to the returning officer and candidates to settle on the method for deciding the election — whether it is by drawing straws or maybe even rock-paper-scissors.
Mark Bee, Conservative agent for Waveney, said there were several stages candidates had to go through before reaching the luck of the draw stage, such as a full rcount or simply checking the bundles of votes stacked up for each candidate. But although he said 'politics as a business is a rough trade', his view is that: 'There's no alternative really.
It may appear to be a very unlikely event — but one cannot rule out the possibility that there may be one candidate who draws the short straw. It is often said that you need to have a little bit of luck to get on the first step of the ladder in your chosen career. When standing for political office for the first time in , Mr Blizzard and his Conservative opponent May Reader canvassed furiously in a bid to be elected for the Pakefield ward on Waveney District Council.
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