Tommy Sheridan oot

Lucky Lucan · Post by **Lucky Lucan** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:13 am

[web]https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/ ... _page.html[/web]

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:39 am

Can't help feeling "first past the post" is unfair .. where half a percent point swing, after 10% of ballots were rejected, can make the difference to being in or out of politics.

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:05 pm

Out by half a percent, too. Ouch.

Post by **faceless** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:43 pm

I hadn't realised that all the SSP MSPs had lost their seats too. I'm sure Rupert Murdoch and his Scottish cohorts celebrated that moment (probably by sacrificing a goat).

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:54 pm

Hope Labour doesn't use the "10% rejected vote" to try to undermine the SNP and ask for a re-run.

Those "rejected" votes could be "manually" recounted .. even if it means contacting each voter (which is traceable)

[web]https://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=698352007[/web]

Post by **faceless** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:03 pm

I think they have to organise another election- this is a joke.

Lucky Lucan · Post by **Lucky Lucan** » Sun May 06, 2007 9:56 am

GG_Fan wrote:Hope Labour doesn't use the "10% rejected vote" to try to undermine the SNP and ask for a re-run.

Looks like Labor are going down that path.

Colston · Post by **Colston** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:25 am

Hanging chads anyone?

popinjay · Post by **popinjay** » Mon May 07, 2007 8:51 pm

Colston wrote:Hanging chads anyone?

The difference is that Bush rigged that election on purpose. This is just incompetence. If Labour have lost seats, they've only got themselves to blame for setting up such bad vote counting machines in the first place.