Time to randomise names on polling papers?

IMO , as a nation we take our voting seriously and we are very nuanced when it comes to voting. Those that give their no 1 to the first face on the ballet paper,their no 2 to the second face on the ballet , and so no, must be EVEN MORE REAR than hens teeth. You would wonder why there even make the effort to vote

. The current design of the voting paper is sufficiently fit for purpose - once one is familiar with the alphabet. Once you know who your 1,2,3, , and so on is you can go down through the list and in case there is confusion you have the candidates photos to verify that you have the right one - am thinking of ‘Cuiv ‘ ‘ O Cuiv’ here.

The MOST IMPORTANT THING about voting- for those that are serious/genuine voters is that they do not have the same number town twice - which is possible if you lose track of ‘ your thoughts’ as you go through the big long list as that would spoil your paper. So a check back would be desirable before ballet boxing it.

A VERY BIG HELP in voting is to write out the order of your voting- say ,at least for the first six- before you turn up at the voting station. I think that all of the local papers- and national papers for the Euros had a list , including photos, of who was going. Forward- so no excuses there.

One would swear from some of the posts here that this voting thing ‘ is an awful drag on our lives and is there anything we can do to have it less interfering in our lives’. . For ‘ crying out loud’ we are only asked once every four to five years to give a few minutes to apply our minds to something that is VERY IMPORTANT and is very sacred

And finally, Millions in this world ARE STRUGGLING in this world to win the right to vote WITHOUT INTERFERENCE

See my post immediately prior to yours.

I have a sneaking suspicion that quite a few voters only went to the 5th or 6th preference who if there were only 10 or 11 on the ballot paper would have gone all the way down.

On my local Election balott paper I voted for all 10.

On the European one I voted for all bar two who I gave a vote of 1000 and 10,000. So if it comes to my vote being needed for either of them candidates it's useless and I am OK with that of it means they do not get into Europe again.

This would not be that, though

It would be valid til 3 then non transferable

Fair play to the folks who manage to produce an analytical paper like that with no internet access, no Excel access. Having said that, it is a single snapshot from 65 years ago, so it's not really enough to suggest that there is a major issue here.

Really? Thats very interesting alright, I wonder if they have tip offs about planned attempts at ballot stuffing?

That would wipe out all but the three large parties.

Two seat constituencies are utterly non-proportional and I suspect would require a legislative change too.

Has it not been discovered time and time again that there are lots of voters who only decide what way they're finally voting, when they get into the voting booth?