A Private Vote???

[Baldric]

In an earlier post by JJ, (DNA from everybody) Eddie51 mentioned Political Parties being able to identify who had voted for them (from DNA on their voting slips).

At our local Polling Station when you present your card, the clerk takes it off you, matches it with your Electoral Roll entry, gets your voting slip(s) ready, then pencils the reference number against your name in the Electoral Roll onto your voting slip thereby identifying it for future reference and removing the privacy element of the vote.
When on one occasion I asked why, I was told, 'it's the system I can't discuss it'.
When I vote now I take an eraser with me and remove the number from my voting slip whilst in the polling booth.
Is anyone else aware of this invasion of privacy????

[Teddy_boy]

I was talking about the list they compile after you vote, according to this thread. You seem to have misunderstood me.

[Baldric]

Firstly, I'm not paranoid about security.
I mentioned something that people may not be aware of, and I've given away nothing that would be of any use to anyone, unless there is a conspiracy against people who live on the East Coast doing x-words and catching the odd (and it is odd) 5 minutes of Bargain Hunt, which if you'd read that post properly you would've seen I don't claim to be a regular viewer of. You do seem to make a habit of being uninformed (quote; I was not aware of that) with some of your posts.

[jackthehat]

We should all be free to vote with our consciences; free from any pressure to vote 'correctly' and free from any sort of 'punishment/surviellance' if we vote 'incorrectly.

Which is why the concept of a Secret Ballot is so precious.

[DrFilth]

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[Baldric]

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