They're only letting us use pencils to vote!!

[Vocal Minority]

What was your point though.

Anyway - have modified that post after a trial run

[Axionknight]

bexVN said:

BlackLabel said:

Just pure crazy!!

Barmy bds,

[Vocal Minority]

Basically spoil the papers?

OK - that's a better way of fixing a vote. So we can put this pen st to bed then?

Though 10% spoiled votes - looks odd

[Einion Yrth]

Vocal Minority said:

What was your point though.

Anyway - have modified that post after a trial run

Forget erasing anything. Take a polling card, used, neat cross in only one box. Now add anything at all to that, cross in the other box, picture of a fish, "I love Lucy" doesn't matter, need take no more than perhaps half a second; hey presto, spoilt ballot, doesn't count. Like I say, immensely unlikely to happen, but a lot quicker than your idea if you wanted to steal a vote. (Just lying would, of course, be even easier.)

[Hoofy]

Challo said:

Someone on my FB mentioned that it must be rigged as they are only allowing you to use pencils. When I stated that it's not true, and that you can use a pen, she responded that how did I know it wasn't rigged...???

I give up.

[EnglishTony]

Has anyone got an eraser? I've done several hundred papers and mine has had it.

Will swop for a pencil if required. I have hundreds of them.

[Neil H]

Challo said:

Someone on my FB mentioned that it must be rigged as they are only allowing you to use pencils. When I stated that it's not true, and that you can use a pen, she responded that how did I know it wasn't rigged...???

I give up.

To be honest it would be in everyone's interests if these people were not allowed to vote. Also not allowed pencils, or any other potentially sharp objects.

[PhillipM]

I'd prefer they were allowed sharp objects, with the safety labels removed.

[Pesty]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jadSNgp69yc

[Esseesse]

Hoofy said:

pc.iow said:

This just came up on my FB page. It must be getting serious now.
https://www.facebook.com/100008434779406/videos/16...

What a tt. And videoing the police officer, too.

But why are the police involved in an incident of pen lending? Catnip for conspiracy theorists.

In my polling booth there was a biro along side the tethered pencil. I went with the biro.

[jmorgan]

Maybe the pencil was tethered so as to prevent it reaching the "leave" bit?

[944fan]

Driller said:

Good God the "ooh put your tin foil hat on missus" crowd really pisses me off. How naive do you have to be to imagine anyone in government isn't capable and willing to do anything underhand as a means to an end.

Encouraging the use of pencils because pen ink might fade? Are they going to count the papers this century? You have to be fking kidding me!

Really? Something like that would require an enormous amount of people. You cannot keep that many people quiet, someone would talk. Government can't keep anything a fking secret, massive voting fraud across the entire country? Give me break.

[Vroom101]

You want conspiracy? Just look at the last two adverts in the latest free Tesco magazine...



Better Together? Stand Together?


CANT YOU SEE WHAT THEYRE DOING?????!!!!!!!!!


And tin foil was on special this week

[kowalski655]

Vocal Minority said:

4x4Tyke said:

This has got to be the wackiest conspiracy I've seen on the subject.

http://www.ukipdaily.com/assassination-jo-cox-mp/

Astonishing!

This the complete nutter "barrister"who made fake bomb threats at the Olympics,and was done for kiddie porn! I think its safe to say his opinion is a wee bit wrong

[anonymous-user]

When I picked up the pencil a felt a strong magnetic force trying to pull my pencil to the remain box.

Luckily I had my tin foil hat on so I was impervious to the nefarious way of the illuminati tricks and placed the cross in the leave box.

Be warned people stay frosty.

Edited by The Spruce goose on Thursday 23 June 22:37

[EnglishTony]

Vocal Minority said:

4x4Tyke said:

This has got to be the wackiest conspiracy I've seen on the subject.

http://www.ukipdaily.com/assassination-jo-cox-mp/

Astonishing!

Did he write that with a pencil or is he only allowed crayons?

[williamp]

Postal votes people!! Postal votes!! What do you think the Royal mail do all afternoon once your post has been delivered at breakfast time! They've been changing ballot papers since Christmas at least. Royal mail. Pencils. Eraers. You heard it here first.

Even their logo: A crown and "ER". Short for "ERaser"

Tin foil hats set up max, WOPR is at Defcon 2 people.

[4x4Tyke]

Probably regretting outsourcing it to the lowest tender just now.

[BlackLabel]

Leave doing better than expected - imagine how well they'd be doing if we could all use pens instead of pencils.

[Big Al.]

Main results thread is over here please:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...