ukip are being coned on ballot paper to trick you
May 20, 2014 8:01:39 GMT
Post by Admin on May 20, 2014 8:01:39 GMT
It does however get difficult when you not only have to take on three or four opponents at a time but you find that the referee is letting them get away with the electoral equivalent of eye-gouging too.
In this case the Electoral Commission is the referee and it has made a frankly astonishing decision that cannot be allowed to pass without comment.
The Commission – ElCom for short – has permitted a party to go on the ballot paper which has deliberately chosen a similar name to the UK Independence Party in an obvious bid to con the voters.
The party – largely made up of embittered political failures that we have chucked out of UKIP – has been formed with the name “An Independence From Europe”. That name ensures it is top of the ballot paper, which is ranked by alphabetical order. UKIP is, by contrast, at or near the bottom.
Worse still, its tag line as it appears on the ballot paper is “UK Independence Now”. If you gaze at your ballot paper with fire in your belly to vote UKIP and that is the first thing you see, there is a very real prospect of the eye being fooled and the cross going in a box you never intended.
We are already getting reports of people being upset to find out that they have sent in postal votes on behalf of An Independence From Europe when they meant to vote for us.
Given that one of the main reasons for the setting up of the Electoral Commission was to stop this anti-democratic, fraudulent practice of passing off, I find it absolutely staggering that it has permitted this party name and this description.
And given that this party has almost no media profile and no serious campaign structure or capability, if it records more than about half a per cent of the poll we will know for sure that it has in effect “stolen” votes from UKIP supporters.
In this case the Electoral Commission is the referee and it has made a frankly astonishing decision that cannot be allowed to pass without comment.
The Commission – ElCom for short – has permitted a party to go on the ballot paper which has deliberately chosen a similar name to the UK Independence Party in an obvious bid to con the voters.
The party – largely made up of embittered political failures that we have chucked out of UKIP – has been formed with the name “An Independence From Europe”. That name ensures it is top of the ballot paper, which is ranked by alphabetical order. UKIP is, by contrast, at or near the bottom.
Worse still, its tag line as it appears on the ballot paper is “UK Independence Now”. If you gaze at your ballot paper with fire in your belly to vote UKIP and that is the first thing you see, there is a very real prospect of the eye being fooled and the cross going in a box you never intended.
We are already getting reports of people being upset to find out that they have sent in postal votes on behalf of An Independence From Europe when they meant to vote for us.
Given that one of the main reasons for the setting up of the Electoral Commission was to stop this anti-democratic, fraudulent practice of passing off, I find it absolutely staggering that it has permitted this party name and this description.
And given that this party has almost no media profile and no serious campaign structure or capability, if it records more than about half a per cent of the poll we will know for sure that it has in effect “stolen” votes from UKIP supporters.
