UK:Swap Your Vote ? if your vote will be wasted?
 

General Election 2015: Do you think your vote will be wasted? You could try swapping it with someone in a marginal seat




[Ben Little and Jonathan Rogers barely know each other. But, on 7 May,
each man will walk into a polling station in different
constituencies and cast their vote according to the other’s wishes.

The pair have agreed to swap votes – a form of tactical voting developed to increase
the power of individual votes cast under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system.
Neither man will be voting for his first preference, but both believe vote swapping will help
them to maximise the chances of those they want to see in power.
Mr Little is a Labour supporter in Chipping Barnet, a safe Tory seat in north London.
Mr Rogers is a Green Party supporter in the Labour target seat of Hornsey and Wood Green,
also in north London, where Ed Miliband’s party has a real chance
of unseating the Liberal Democrat incumbent. ]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10187359.html


This was on SkyNewsHD papers review

I just think people should vote for who best represents them and their own views and hopes.
However, if this works for these 2, fine.

Its more than these 2


This is about safe seats

Your vote is supposed to be your own to vote for who best represents you, as joey said.

I think this is stupid.

if there is nothing on offer that appeals to you - go and make you voting slip invalid - by putting none of the above.

What next: Advertisements for 'VOTES FOR SALE'?:shrug:

Sure
but there is a site doing it


No Cops have stopped it

Yes Labour members may do that

Just shows how desperate people are to unseat this lot.

Yes And no one wants
New Labour /Labour /SNPism

in power

Joey and I do...

we know

Not quite sure no-one wants then in power Arista

Utter Anarchy

Sounds fine to me, this is the problem with FPTP, people have to resort to tactical voting like this

I say if you're not happy with the current system then go for it.Nobody can really stop it happening.This is apparently a democracy after all.

Clearly they do.

:shrug: The politicians are happy to use an tactics to win, so the voters can feel free to do the same.

No way would I trust a stranger to cast a vote for me..how on earth can you trust anyone to carry out your wishes.

OK Josy



No One In Their Right mind wants
Labour/SNPism

as it will not work



But UKIP and Conservative
is ready for merge (PM says no way , of course )

Its very normal nowdays
Jacki

No one's having my vote, ever. Appalling idea.

Lol, never heard anything so stupid. There is no way to check that your partner has indeed voted as per your request. Sounds like an age old scam to me.

Utter nonsense............and probably illegal

Also, how could you ever really know the other person actually did so too.

I am finding a great many people do Kizzy,in England too,from the North to the Midlands.
It seems maybe one or 2 people possibly don't get out much.

No its a Trusted Website
not for kids

Just shows how flawed first past the post is - that said, I don't think coalition governments (a by product of proportional representation) are any better.

Its all legal

Debated Live now on Ch5HD

Makes complete sense to me, Feel like I'd have trust issues doing it myself though

I guess photo the x
as you vote - you could photograph
and the same at the other end etc


Labours Gloria D Piero
Green Caroline Lucas
Conservative Anna Soubry

Are all at risk of losing their seat
Ch5HD just confirmed

Election law is taken very seriously. I hope any one caught doing this is prosecuted.

Isn't that illegal

I wonder why you can't photo your ballot paper?

It is illegal, yes.

“While it is not necessarily a criminal offence to photograph a completed ballot paper either at home or within a polling place, it is strongly discouraged as it could violate the secrecy of the ballot, which is fundamental to the integrity of the process.”

So, is it illegal is it not?

Well, the only illegality around it (according to the Electoral Commission and the Referendum Act 2013) would be if you do one of the following.

Being disruptive as judged by the polling officer at the particular station
Taking a photo of anyone else either purposely or by mistake (misjudged selfie)
However chances are if you have a postal vote you’re not in a polling station. In this case, you can share your postal vote all you want, as long as you don’t share anyone else’s, induce others into sharing theirs or share others photos without their prior permission.

So – photos in polling stations you’ll have to follow the rules as laid out in the referendum act to avoid breaking the law. Photos of postal votes are perfectly fine, although discouraged.'

http://www.scotlandvotes.com/news/ar...elfies-illegal

It is illegal. Even the outfit promoting this ridiculous idea agrees...

http://giveyourvote.org/news/give-your-vote-and-law

Representation of the People Act 1983.”

Are they right? The relevant legislation is as follows:

s66(3) No person shall:

(a) interfere with or attempt to interfere with a voter when recording his vote;

(b) otherwise obtain or attempt to obtain in a polling station information as to the candidate for whom a voter in that station is about to vote or has voted;

(c) communicate at any time to any person any information obtained in a polling station as to the candidate for whom a voter in that station is about to vote or has voted, or as to the number (or other unique identifying mark) on the back of the ballot paper given to a voter at that station;

(d) directly or indirectly induce a voter to display his ballot paper after he has marked it so as to make known to any person the name of the candidate for whom he has or has not voted.

You could take a pic but not share it seems to be the advice, I don't know how it could be proved you'd shown your phone to anyone, what if you left it lying around and someone happened to glance at it.. not that you should ever do that.

http://www.halsburyslawexchange.co.u...n-day-selfies/

Oh Kizzy, I'm sure you know so much more about the law than I do, especially election law. I encourage you to take a selfie with your ballot paper if you're convinced it's all okay and above board. And make sure you post it online.

If you used a postal vote ith rules are a bit more relaxed as nobody can stop you taking a photo in your own home, but it's a bit late for that.
As long as you don't share it, that's where you're in trouble by the look of it.

Of course I don't... Yours wasn't a professional opinion, you used google didn't you and posted a link, how is that more valid?
There's a law against encouraging people commit vote fraud, I wouldn't encourage it you might get in trouble.