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Scots Wha Huh?
May. 4th, 2007 11:12 pmScottish electors in following-written-instructions quandary...
Apparently it's all the fault of the system that over 100,000 Scottish voters are too thick to fill in their ballot papers correctly. I ask you.
On the paper for the Scottish Parliament you mark a cross in one box in the left-hand column, and one box in the right-hand column.
On the paper for the local council you number the candidates in order of preference.
How terribly difficult. Morons. And to think we're always being told how much better than ours the Scottish education system is (although to be fair, it could hardly be worse).
Actually, this has given me an idea. We should make all ballot papers as complex as possible, in order to alleviate one of the major drawbacks of democracy by ensuring that the votes of cretins don't count. Fairer, I think, than just taking all the poor people off the electoral roll, like they do in Florida...
Which would be the first chav town to record a zero poll, I wonder?
Apparently it's all the fault of the system that over 100,000 Scottish voters are too thick to fill in their ballot papers correctly. I ask you.
On the paper for the Scottish Parliament you mark a cross in one box in the left-hand column, and one box in the right-hand column.
On the paper for the local council you number the candidates in order of preference.
How terribly difficult. Morons. And to think we're always being told how much better than ours the Scottish education system is (although to be fair, it could hardly be worse).
Actually, this has given me an idea. We should make all ballot papers as complex as possible, in order to alleviate one of the major drawbacks of democracy by ensuring that the votes of cretins don't count. Fairer, I think, than just taking all the poor people off the electoral roll, like they do in Florida...
Which would be the first chav town to record a zero poll, I wonder?
