Welsh voter draws penis on ballot paper - returning officer counts it as a vote

[Amir]

Welsh voter draws penis on ballot paper - returning officer counts it as a vote

By South Wales Evening Post | Posted: May 08, 2015

An angry voter drew a picture of a penis on his ballot paper instead of an X for a Tory MP - and it counted as a vote.

Conservative MP Glyn Davies today revealed how the voter's penis protest backfired by giving him the extra vote.

And instead of being counted as a spoiled vote cock up, the returning officer decided to count it as a proper X.

Mr Davies said: "One voter decided to draw a detailed representation of a penis instead of a cross in my box on one ballot paper.

"Amazingly, because it was neatly drawn within the confines of the box the returning officer deemed it a valid vote.

"Not sure the artist meant it to count, but I am grateful.

Farmer Mr Davies held his seat in Montgomeryshire in Mid Wales with "significantly enlarged" majority of 5,325 votes.

Mr Davies said: "If I knew who it was, I would like to thank him (or her) personally."

http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Voter-draws-penis-ballot-paper/story-26465025-detail/story.html

[Graeme]

"Signficiantly enlarged", eh?

[Amir]

Might appreciate this one, Graeme : http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/unspun-the-politics-diary.24373276

[Facekicker]

[Snake-Pit]

A: I don't see the penis.

B: I see Scottish Lib Dems and the SNP, despite it being a Welsh voter

The story might be true, but that picture's might not be it.

Just as I came here to post

HOW THE SCAM WORKED: Voters in Bournemouth were casting votes on the wrong ballot papers – or being told to 'come back later'. All nine polling stations in Kinson North and Kinson South were affected by a printing error on books of ballot papers. Meanwhile, in Hastings, 200,000 ballot papers were stolen - divided up, these would have been enough to swing at least 30 marginal seats. Hundreds of postal ballot papers were sent out without the names of the Green and Labour Party candidates in the Hull East constituency. The provision of pencils in polling booths is a requirement of section 206 of the Electoral Act. There is, however nothing to prevent an elector from marking his or her ballot paper with a pen - but voters were never told this - so everyone used the pencils - and that made it easier to 'adjust' the vote. Then two ballot boxes were misplaced by election staff from an Eastwood Hilltop ballot station, as candidates noticed the total number of votes in Labour Leader Milan Radulovic’s battleground was over '2,000 crosses too low'. And then Darlington Borough Council faced calls for a re-count after UKIP's David Hodgson's name was left off ballot papers. Funny how all these 'blunders' never disadvantaged the queen's cousin, Mr David Cameron. A full investigation is being made into a documentary for THE ENIGMA CHANNEL - check out the TV shows here - they are banned from the mainstream!

..in the UK politics thread, I saw this.

It's all dodgy.

Edited May 10, 2015 by Snake-Pit

[Len Cnut]

My sister used to say 'even if you're going to go and put 'no vote, under protest' you should always go. Now i think about it my sister said some bloody stupid things sometimes.

[Johnny Drama]

You mean they drew a pynys.

[streak]

Fuck off Len.

Remember when you voted conservative, and your wrote *** M**** is a f*cking p**i on the ballot paper?

[Len Cnut]

What, she told me it was a form of protest why you getting all defensive about your sister?

Edited May 11, 2015 by Len B'stard

[streak]

Sod off you fucking Tory cunt.

[Len Cnut]

Fuck off, how am i a Tory, i didnt even vote. Anyway, didnt you vote for The Green Party last time you fucking fat hippie.

[streak]

You are. You just give it the large about being a fucking socialist commie and working class but the truth is you are a centre-right cunt.

How the fuck am I fat anyway>?

[sturginho]

Fight fight fight fight!

[Len Cnut]

You are. You just give it the large about being a fucking socialist commie and working class but the truth is you are a centre-right cunt.

How the fuck am I fat anyway>?

In the way that someone is a big blubberous gargantuan morbidly obese kebab munching tub of warm shite