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Presumably because a ballot filled out in pencil is not immutable — the pencil marks could be erased!
by rsfern 6y ago
Presumably because a ballot filled out in pencil is not immutable — the pencil marks could be erased!
- mhh__ 6y agoThat's why the sealed ballot boxes are accompanied by by two officers and the candidates are all present at the count. If you tampered with the ballot it would only be discarded due to the rubber marking in the "wrong" box
- mikelward 6y agoI don't know about the UK, but in Australia it's attended by the candidates' representatives, called "scrutineers". The counting is done at the polling place, so the candidates can't be multiple places at once. I've scrutineered before, and it all seemed to work well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrutineer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrutineer