Scottish Referendum!

[Just-Jude]

How come 80% of postal votes were for the No camp?

Who were all these phantom voters? Do they actually exist?

Why were they all out of the country at the same time?

This all happened even before any "promises" were made! A lot of questions regarding vote rigging need answering!

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt they do. Or will be.
Quite possible many had made up their minds well beforehand.
What proportion of the whole used a postal vote anyway ?

[Prudie]

Who knows, logic would say postal voters are mainly the elderly who can't get out to the polling stations and also more likely to be in the No camp

[scorpiojo]

How do you know they were 'phantom voters' and were they not allowed a postal vote if they were in the country?

[jim360]

A lot of questions on vote rigging need answering? Here's the answer then: there wasn't any. The "no" vote was always the most likely to win, despite the increasing volume of "yes" voters. Polls showed that all the way through, so the result should hardly be a surprise.

[Slapshot]

I had a postal vote because I expected to be in the south Atlantic but wasn't so didnt use it, swapped it for a real vote.

[Slapshot]

Actually one of the fun bits of all the vote rigging "scandals" is that 7 of the 10 instances of "scandal" were in Glasgow and Dundee....who voted yes.... go figure

[Wharton]

Overall vote
NO - 55%
YES - 45%

Postal vote
NO - 80%
YES - 20%

One would have to be either naive or feeble-minded not to harbour suspicions.

[jim360]

I don't see that there's any reason to be suspicious. The postal vote again is something more likely from the older generation, which was always more against independence; while the surge in "Yes" support only came in early September, after a lot of postal votes had been already sent in. There is no reason to be suspicious.

The "Yes" vote lost. Time to move on, and make togetherness work.

[shoota]

Or conversely, one might wonder how the 'Yes' vote managed to reach 45% without being rigged.

Works both ways.

[Svejk]

ha,ha, you had em, there, shoota boy. ;-)

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you have a link for the breakdown of the postal votes?

[Wharton]

shoota lad/Svejk - Do you live on the same farm? Please don't give the same answer as I'll suspect rigging :-)

[scorpiojo]

Lol

[ToraToraTora]

who says they were out of the country? A high percentage on both sids made up their minds years ago I'd imagine.

"A lot of questions regarding vote rigging need answering! " - from who? You are the only one so far.

Stop whinging you lost get over it.

[ichkeria]

Do you know what I think was really dodgy:
The rooms that the votes were counted in were too big.
That's right: "too big". Imagine that. The cheating b*st*rds to foist that on the poor unsuspecting counters who plainly could not cope with the space such that they missed a lot of Yes votes.
That was one of the complaints of the Russian observers, anyway.