Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

[muon]

Why are we still using this backwards system of putting a cross on a piece of paper and having them manually counted?

Shouldn't we be totally electronic now for results in seconds? Why are elections still in the stone age?

That's quite expensive though unless you have fewer polling stations. Hiring people for a couple of days every 5 years is cheaper than security audited machines everywhere.

 

[cu3ed]

Lol, yea, that's been used before, isn't that how Bush got "elected" a second time?

 

[PermaBanned]

They tried that in Florida...

 

[George Hincapie]

Lol, yea, that's been used before, isn't that how Bush got "elected" a second time?

In a State governed by his Brother no less.

 

[Tosno]

how many seats do you think ukip will get?

4. But Farage's is worth 100 for us

 

[muon]

You can also recount paper ballots.

 

[ic1male]

Why can't they do it the way they do with GCSEs? (I took mine 25 years ago!) I remember one of my maths exams, we were given a piece of paper, a bit like a lottery ticket. We had to mark the answers with a black line.

You could do the same with ballot slips. That way, you can scan heaps of papers in minutes.

 

[McBain]

Have to say, the BBC coverage on this has been pretty top notch.

 

[anything I don't mind]

Watching bbc coverage. Quite amateur with constant sound problems.

 

[Glaucus]

Show Thornbury ffs, I want to know what's predicted there.

 

[ubersonic]

And I promise you, Milliband's promise not to in any way deal with the SNP is a complete lie.

Nonsense, Miliband cannot deal with the SNP, it simply is not an option for him. The SNP have basically ran their campaign on "if you want Labour vote for us, you'll get Labour plus some nice deals we squeeze out of them", they have been exploiting Labour in order to increase their election chances while hurting Labours. If Miliband deals with them it will vindicate that tactic, no sane Scotsman will ever vote Labour again, it would kill his party north of the border and the resentment it would cause in England would practically kill them in England too (we're talking "I'll never vote Tory cos Thatcher" levels of resentment).

 

[Judgeneo]

The live stream has broken for me, I'll try again later.

 

[Azza]

In for Nuneaton then I might just chug the bleach!

 

[cu3ed]

No funny robot cameras in the BBC studio though, when those things muck up it can be funny.

 

[escape sanity]

The live stream has broken for me, I'll try again later.

The live stream on the BBC News page is broken for me but the one on iPlayer is working.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcone

 

[Glaucus]

Interesting that they are saying ukip pulling votes from labour as well.

 

[pieplough]

no sane Scotsman will ever vote Labour again

That has happened already as far as I'm seeing.

 

[muon]

Why can't they do it the way they do with GCSEs? (I took mine 25 years ago!) I remember one of my maths exams, we were given a piece of paper, a bit like a lottery ticket. We had to mark the answers with a black line.

You could do the same with ballot slips. That way, you can scan heaps of papers in minutes.

That's a good idea. I'm guessing it has been considered. No idea why it hasn't been done.

 

[Azza]

Interesting that they are saying ukip pulling votes from labour as well.

Looks like they're taking a bit of both, but the Cons are taking more LD than Labour from BBC forcasts.

 

[Nutella33]

Why are we still using this backwards system of putting a cross on a piece of paper and having them manually counted?

Shouldn't we be totally electronic now for results in seconds? Why are elections still in the stone age?

Because we would end up with "that bear" as prime minister and bieber as his deputy, Biggie Smalls as finance minister (mo money mo problems) and 1D in opposition.

Plus as well as that fear, computers are far less accessible for older generations.

Its being rolled out and tested on small scales but not really ideal.