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Fiasco, chaos and the golf club

By The Basa ⋅ May 4, 2007 ⋅

Well the votes are in ~~and counted~~.

“A night that Robert Mugabe would have bee proud of” - ”It was absolute bedlam” - “I honestly don’t know how they can seriously say it’s an accurate count from that station” - “seven counts suspended” - “Obviously, in various places, serious technical failures have arisen to delay the announcement of results” - “There are fears the national figure for spoilt ballots could exceed 100,000.” - “It said that the Scotland Office shared the public’s concern about the high number of rejected ballot papers” - “This election was just a set up to destroy the Scottish peoples trust and belief in themselves to be able to effectively run anything.” - “I find it unacceptable ” - “I can totally understand why people got confused with the ballot papers” - “it really irritates me how the polling station doesn’t provide for people with learning difficulties like myself” - “Labour and the Liberal Democrats, true to their track record they did not listen to the voices who told them the voting choices and system were suspect and not proven”.

“Deepening the sense of chaos, several counts were scrapped amid technical problems, and will start over later today.” - “horrendous” - David Cairns, the Scotland Office minister “thank goodness we don’t have politicians overseeing the election” - “Why are tens of thousands of people in Scotland going to be disenfranchised because machines don’t work, or because they don’t understand the system” -