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representatives of the political parties who 'camp' outside the hall, to
whom I refuse to give my number as I go in and who, I > believe, should not
even know that I have voted if I don't want them to, let alone be able to
find out how I have voted afterwards. (In practice it wouldn't do them
much good to know my number anyway since no party ever bothers to venture
down our private drive to canvas us.)
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I have been watching the voting dicussion but its the above issue that has
for years bothered me. I too have always refused to give them my details but
it bothers me that they infringe others privacy by appearing (I know that
they would say that do not) to be associated with the voting process. At my
voting station people were queuing up to give their numbers.
What I wanted to do (but my wife wouldn't let me) was - tell the party
whose time I wanted to waste, and for whom I would never vote, that I was
going to vote for them. Then refuse to give my number to the party rep's at
the door so that in the evening when they checked the list of all those that
had promised to vote for them to see if everyone had turned out they would
find that I had not. I would hopefully waste someones time from the party
that I did not want to win as they were sent round to my house to encourage
me to go and vote. This way someone who potentially may vote for them may
not be contacted and therefore not vote.
I guess collecting 10 or so postal votes is the easier option these days.
Richard
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