I have never seen the voting side of a postal ballot paper at the opening of the boxes. They are very good at keeping them face down, which is as it should be.
Sidney
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Sent: 30 April 2010 15:06
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Subject: Re: What is the states of postal votes?
At 13:12 30/04/2010 +0100, Martin Rathfelder wrote:
>There is nothing unlawful about obtaining information about postal
>votes. As an agent I am entitled to go and watch them being opened.
>What is unlawful is communicating the information. But actually the
>information is meaningless.
You are certainly allowed to watch them being opened, and communicating the
information is clearly unlawful, but 5.5. of the regulations which were
posted says:
"...you and your agents should not make any attempt to see how any
individual ballot
paper is marked, nor make any attempt to take notes on how ballot papers are
marked. In any event, all ballot papers will be kept with the voting side
face down
and so it will not be possible to see how the postal voters have voted. "
... suggests to me that you could only get to see how postal voters have
voted by breaking the rules.
Kind Regards,
John
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