TheKnightWho
Established Member
I've seen some fraud in some of the SU and college elections I've been involved with, usually by a student in a position of power (i.e. the returning officer or the comms officer). But any voting system has weakness: pencil marks can be rubbed out, pen marks can be changed to spoil a paper or, as happened in Witney last night, 70+ papers for the Labour candidate can be found "under a pile of Tory papers" whose discovery changed the result of the ballot.
I'd say electronic voting would be safer than the postal ballots we receive now as trade union members. After all, let's face it, TU elections have even less national importance or significance than an NUS election.
Much harder to do that with all sorts of people around than to do it electronically, though.
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I assume you have made a typing error with this statement, either that or you consider an NUS election to be more important than a TU election that cripples the entire countries train services, air traffic control, rubbish collection, lorry deliveries etc etc etc, I know students are rather important, to themselves even if to nobody else, but you perhaps need to get your realities of life into some sort of order
I'd much rather they be temporarily suspended than crippled through poor moral or from people leaving the industry in droves. Or would you rather this nightmare with Junior Doctors were repeated in lots of industries, because you'd rather blame it on the workers than those actually putting them in that position?
Then again, it's easy to parrot the Daily Mail
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