How civilised - We had to cope with the East Midland's postal ballot forms. Totally bloody confusing. I'm amazed that its possible to make a postal ballot form as complex as they have done - a triumph for the Ministry of Adminstrative Affairs
Ous was really simple. "Tick three boxes in this one. Tick one box in this one. Get someone to sign this, and tick a box saying that you're actually you. Put those in this envelope, put that envelope and this in the other envelope, and post it".
That was ours, but the witness thing is going to throw a lot of people - I'll be extremely interested to see what the spoiled ballot rate is for these postal forms is compared with the rate for traditional voting.
I also suspect that the actual turn out will not be much higher as a LOT of people will treat their voting form as junk mail.
I don't think it'll throw that many people. Anyone with a passport or drivers license issued in the past ten or fifteen years will be familiar with the concept of getting someone to prove they are who they say they are on an official document, only this time it doesn't have to be a doctor/teacher/political figure who's known them for more than two years. Just "someone who isn't you".
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Date: 2004-06-07 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-07 01:02 pm (UTC)Or something like that.
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Date: 2004-06-07 01:05 pm (UTC)I also suspect that the actual turn out will not be much higher as a LOT of people will treat their voting form as junk mail.
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Date: 2004-06-07 01:17 pm (UTC)