How machines took over the Holyrood elections

[TonyGosling]

The assumption may have been that every ballot would be adjudicated by a human being - but that's not what happened. We have established that the e-counting machines were set to auto-adjudicate - to reject certain types of ballots automatically. 146,000 votes never appeared on the screens to be challenged by the parties. They were never adjudicated by the returning officer. Indeed, the last human beings to set eyes on those rejected ballots were the voters who had cast them.

How machines took over the Holyrood elections
By Kenneth Macdonald
BBC Scotland special correspondent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6975348.stm

Exasperated official at vote count. Many officials were unaware that the machines could reject ballots.

All kinds of voter confusion on the day.

All sorts of technical problems on the night and into the next morning.

And by the end of a long, long election night, 146,000 rejected ballots.

Exactly four months on from the Holyrood elections, a picture has emerged of an electoral 'perfect storm' where every element conspired to confuse.

There were two elections on the same day - one for Holyrood, the other for local councils.

Two different voting systems, one of them completely new. One new ballot paper, the other redesigned to replace two old ones.

Two crosses on one ballot paper, numbers on the other. And everything counted by machine instead of by hand.......

[karlos]

Every opinion poll and exit poll showed a landslide victory by the SNP.
yet after the elimination of these votes it was watered down to a mere neck and neck with Labour.
The voting machines are made by a company which cleverly employs none other than Glenys Kinnock's husband Neil.
They are the same company who also successfully elected Ken Livingstone in London.

I think there is no way we can allow voting machines to ebb away what little slither of democracy that still remains.

Unlike other countries we have very few elections and absolutely no referendums. And if those few elections are going to be RIGGED by postal votes from people who dont exist and by voting machines adjusting the manual votes.

The only elections that will remain free are local councils for the time being.

[rodin]

Why is this being revealed on the BBC - TPTB mouthpiece?