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Sandpit said:

MarqueeMark said:

Sandpit said:

Alistair said:

Electronic voting, good idea yes no?
ttps://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1122116677196492800?s=19

Anyone who works in IT will tell you no, definitely not. Unless they work for a company selling voting machines.

Paper and pencil, with people counting, works really well in practice.

Assuming always you have adequate security over the ballot boxes once voting is complete.....

Yes, which is why (in the U.K.) they are sealed at the start of the day, taken from the polling station to the count with the police escorting them, and there’s never one person in sole possession of a ballot box until it’s opened in front of representatives of the candidates.

The whole process around US elections sucks, there’s way too much political interference and only a handful of states have anything like the Electoral Commission to oversee voting.

Yes it always amuses that the USA bangs on about how it is the pinnacle of democracy - annd then is very very cavalier about the mechanics.

I couldn't vote Republican in the US because of the indefensible way they gerrymander and purge electoral rolls.

TheScreamingEagles said:

ICYMI - The ERG and Leavers in general may well have destroyed the Union, big hand clap for them.

https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1121920832245313536
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1121921021777534976
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1121921124848349185
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1121921284638674945
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1121921284638674945

on those figures, it's back to being 'only' a list MSP for Ruth - maybe we will get someone who wants to turn up at constituency surgeries!

Sandpit said:

Roger said:

Mysticrose said:

A logo is obviously less vital than name, slogan and branding ... all of which CHUKTIG have contrived to get wrong.

Any start up needs a top logo. And, with respect, I doubt those commenting below have any professional experience in this area.

https://www.designhill.com/design-blog/us-political-logos-that-can-put-world-best-logo-designs-to-shame/

4 horizontal black and white bars suggests:

- A fence. Message: to keep you out. Privilege. Estate.

- Dull (black and white). It's boring. Inanimate. Lifeless. Turgid. Every other major party has something organic (growing) or moving. This is static and lifeless. Very apt as it happens but the opposite of change.

- Prison. Okay, horizontal not vertical. But these are still bars.

This is the worst political launch in world history

I really like it and there aren't many logos I would say that about. Clean distinctive modern and requires no explanation.

What’s your view of the Brexit Party branding?

It works for what they're trying to do which is to convey a message. it's rather like asking what I think of a set of traffic lights. It's an instruction not an identity.

MarqueeMark said:

Sandpit said:

MarqueeMark said:

Sandpit said:

Alistair said:

Electronic voting, good idea yes no?
ttps://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1122116677196492800?s=19

Anyone who works in IT will tell you no, definitely not. Unless they work for a company selling voting machines.

Paper and pencil, with people counting, works really well in practice.

Assuming always you have adequate security over the ballot boxes once voting is complete.....

Yes, which is why (in the U.K.) they are sealed at the start of the day, taken from the polling station to the count with the police escorting them, and there’s never one person in sole possession of a ballot box until it’s opened in front of representatives of the candidates.

The whole process around US elections sucks, there’s way too much political interference and only a handful of states have anything like the Electoral Commission to oversee voting.

Yes it always amuses that the USA bangs on about how it is the pinnacle of democracy - annd then is very very cavalier about the mechanics.

I couldn't vote Republican in the US because of the indefensible way they gerrymander and purge electoral rolls.

Yeah there’s all sorts of dodgy crap that goes on around the mechanics of elections in the US.

Voter ID is not a bad idea in and of itself, but asking people to travel for two hours each way by bus to go to somewhere that’s open for an hour every month in the middle of the day to get that ID, is well out of order. In some towns, there isn’t even a bus.

The issue is that the conduct of elections is a matter for the states themselves, with no federal input at all.

isam said:

There has to be a part in Midsomer Murders when Soubers loses her seat. Epic hammy acting

https://twitter.com/guidofawkes/status/1122081939937218560?s=21

If you repeat a lie firmly enough people will believe it.

OldKingCole said:

isam said:

There has to be a part in Midsomer Murders when Soubers loses her seat. Epic hammy acting

https://twitter.com/guidofawkes/status/1122081939937218560?s=21

If you repeat a lie firmly enough people will believe it.

Lie early, lie often....copyright Mr D. Trump.