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Polling stations in the UK always provide pencils, and this caused a panic during the EU referendum amongst some Leave supporters, who were worried about their
by spatulon 10y ago
Polling stations in the UK always provide pencils, and this caused a panic during the EU referendum amongst some Leave supporters, who were worried about their votes being changed. Those people brought their own pens, but that kind of paranoia was widely mocked.
cf. Black Mirror writer Charlie Brooker: https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/745921556476473345 https://twitter.com/charltonbrooker/status/74592155647647334...
- tptacek 10y agoI can sort of see how one can rationally object to electronic voting machines, but not to pencil-marked ballots. But it's a bit of a stretch.