Whistlin' Dixie
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Another Govt IT project?! Awaits yet another massive failure & £millions wasted before being scrapped.
The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )
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Another Govt IT project?! Awaits yet another massive failure & £millions wasted before being scrapped.
The Esk
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Unashamedly
Election evening is as good as Christmas Day for me. Absolutely love it.
Know exactly what you mean, I have to vote in person. Hope the BBC reinstate their traditional Rick Wakeman election night music, shambles in 2010 it was dropped!
Pienaar's gloves
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My exam is on Friday. I'm staying up all Thursday night to watch it come in and then it's my 21st on Friday night after the exam.
I've been looking forward to this for five years!
People would actually vote this way.
daylightrobber
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Its the 1 night this year where I'll probably offer to take care of the little one when she inevitably wakes during the night.
The Cowboy
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Does online voting not come with much greater risk of voting fraud?
Having seen some of the shambles in the US voting setup, I'd want some real assurances that it was fair and auditable.
Having seen some of the shambles in the US voting setup, I'd want some real assurances that it was fair and auditable.
Estonia have managed it for 8 years now without any hiccups. I was reading earlier this week about a new security mechanism for mobile voting that uses similar approaches to that deployed in banking. They sounded incredibly confident that they could stop rogue behaviour.
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1158/invited.pdf if you wanted to read it (I've got a review of it going live tomorrow if you wanted a synopsis)
daylightrobber
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Apparently Vince Cable has today been asked why he had allowed "a myth to be perpetuated" that the Labour government was responsible for the financial crash.
His response was that it was "not true" that the Labour government ran up a large deficit before the financial crisis.
He said: "I think this very simple view that the Conservatives perpetuate that the last government went in to the banking crisis with a very large deficit simply was not true."
From the mouth of the Business Secretary folks.
His response was that it was "not true" that the Labour government ran up a large deficit before the financial crisis.
He said: "I think this very simple view that the Conservatives perpetuate that the last government went in to the banking crisis with a very large deficit simply was not true."
From the mouth of the Business Secretary folks.
Garrick
Awesome, lid.
NDP = Labour
PC = Tories
Wildrose = UKIP
Alberta is one of Canada's most right wing provinces. The Tories been in charge for decades upon decades.
They've been having economic troubles over there due to the drop in oil prices (the current low price of oil makes it hard for tar sands to be competitive). The NDP ran on a platform of diversifying the Albertan economy, Wildrose and the Tories split the right wing vote, and the NDP went from 4 seats to 53.
So we've now got an NDP majority government in Canada's version of Texas.
Milk
Udderly delicious
Ah, the good old "Hanging Chad" that elected Bush .....
Could will be the most senior Lib Dem left on Friday morning. Alexander is toast, Clegg far from certain to retain his seat.
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