The digital counting of the votes in Scotland in 2012 appears to have been so smooth that no one’s even mentioning it.
Remembering the demoralising disaster that was the count in 2007, all of the work that has gone into designing and seriously testing the machines used today really paid off.
This count – with the complex transfer of votes until the quota of elected candidates per ward is reached – was fast, seamless and painless. Results started to come through very quick.y and they kept on coming down the line.
This has been an important success – as has been the quietly efficient work by everyone concerned in getting the entire show on the road and keeping it on track.
You’ve got to go down to London to find serious problems with machines, where the machines counting votes for Ken and Boris seems to have got chronic indigestion.
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No wonder. Can you imagine being faced with such a chpoice?
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I understand that there were a high number of spoilt papers which has been interpreted as some of the electorate still not being able to fathom out how to use the scoring system.
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Lowry, I’m not certain how you interpret a ballot paper which has several Xs on it any other way. The vast majority were just so. And to be fair it was universally interpreted as a failure to put the information across rather than blaming it on the voter. From a candidate point of view you really want the voter to get it right so most of the candidates did try.
One or two notable exceptions put an X on their leaflets and posters however and that may have contributed to people’s confusion.
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