| Topic: | Re:Re:Not a Secret Ballot | |
| Posted by: | William Luckman | |
| Date/Time: | 07/05/15 11:25:00 |
| And the detail: "A postgraduate student doing his doctoral research on local government in a Midlands steel town where he was attached to the town clerk's department. One day he opened a cupboard, looking for some documents, and found instead a large number of ballot slips, all of which were marked in favour of a communist candidate in the local elections. The town clerk returned and found the student with the slips and told him (knowing the student's safely right-wing views) that it was one of his regular chores to forward the names of communist voters to the Special Branch. As the town had a strong communist tradition it was a recurrent task for the town clerk and the slips had been put to one side until he had time to deal with them. The then student (my informant) saw nothing wrong with this procedure - which made his account the more believable." http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1051,00.html This thread on Reddit might also be of interest - http://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/353j75/i_am_a_presiding_officer_in_a_polling_station_in/cr0nf42 |