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

[Hoofy]

Talk about dodgy behaviour from a government who clearly wants us to stay in Europe!!!

[Hoofy]

Zod said:

Please tell me this is a spoof thread.

Some eejit posted a genuine thread on Facebook. I couldn't resist. Best bit is, she said 3 of her friends refused to vote when they heard they only supplied pencils.

Edited by Hoofy on Thursday 23 June 11:00

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DanL said:

Does anyone seriously believe people will be diligently erasing pencil marks to change votes?

If you're going to rig an election, there are two easy ways to do it:
1. Just change the counts you report - why waste time changing the voting papers?
2. If you must change a paper, spoil the votes you don't like - easily done, and faster than changing the way someone voted.

Shouldn't this conspiracy stuff be saved until after the vote?

Yes, people do seriously believe that.

As I'm mischievous, I replied that they could indeed spoil your ballot paper even if you used a pen.

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S10GTA said:

You joke, but it actually happened in my local polling station this morning.

S10 GTA this morning said:

Went and placed my vote this morning, and there was a guy there insisting he was to do it in pen. He was voting leave, he told everyone. Laughable.

I can believe it.

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jmorgan said:

What about crayons? Are we allowed to use them? Would thought they would be pretty permanent however you might have to stop a few from eating them.

Given that people do really worry about pencils being supplied, that might be a consideration.

[Hoofy]

Someone just posted on Facebook that the local newsagent has run out of Biros.

[Hoofy]

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.

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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.