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General Elections
Entirely hand-counted √
Count achieved on the same night √
Full access to observers including postal signatures √
Compulsory mailouts of postal voting forms x
Early in-person voting x
Points Rating: 13/20
Counted at a localised location by locals √
Securely sealed chain of custody of in-person votes until count time √
Wide-scale availability of on-demand postal voting √
Percentage of postal votes: 21%
Colour Rating: Yellow
Most aspects to our General Elections (Parliament) are good. There are problems with postal voting. On-demand postal voting ballots are allowed without a strict reason for them. We have a strong tradition of voting in-person in General Elections, so postal vote numbers are relatively low (under 20%).
English Council Elections
Entirely hand-counted √
Count achieved on the same night √
Full access to observers including postal signatures √
Compulsory mailouts of postal voting forms x
Early in-person voting x
Points Rating: 11/20
Counted at a localised location by locals √
Securely sealed chain of custody of in-person votes until count time √
Wide-scale availability of on-demand postal voting √
Percentage of postal votes: 31%
Colour Rating: Orange
Low interest. Way too many seats (multiples, two or three) per each ward/division in lots of places (Barnet council alone has 63 councillors). This disadvantages independents (however thanks to wards/divisions covering small areas independents sometimes win). Worryingly high postal percentage.
Scottish Council Elections
Entirely hand-counted x
Count achieved on the same night √
Full access to observers including postal signatures √
Compulsory mailouts of postal voting forms x
Early in-person voting x
Points Rating: 0/20
Counted at a localised location by locals √
Securely sealed chain of custody of in-person votes until count time √
Wide-scale availability of on-demand postal voting √
Percentage of postal votes: 39%
Colour Rating: Red
Use STV and electronic counting machines.
Welsh Council Elections
Entirely hand-counted √
Count achieved on the same night √
Full access to observers including postal signatures √
Compulsory mailouts of postal voting forms x
Early in-person voting X
Points Rating: 10/20
Counted at a localised location by locals √
Securely sealed chain of custody of in-person votes until count time √
Wide-scale availability of on-demand postal voting √
Percentage of postal votes: 33%
Colour Rating: Orange
The Welsh Government has legislated that local councils will now have the option of switching to STV. They have till 2024 to decide, if so for the next 2027 council elections. We recommend pressurising your councillors not to if you live in Wales!
N.Ireland Council Elections
Entirely hand-counted √
Count achieved on the same night x
Full access to observers including postal signatures √
Compulsory mailouts of postal voting forms x
Early in-person voting x
Points Rating: 16/20
Counted at a localised location by locals √
Securely sealed chain of custody of in-person votes until count time √
Wide-scale availability of on-demand postal voting x
Percentage of postal votes: 1%
Colour Rating: Yellow
STV, but it’s not electronically counted. It has before taken far too long to count, causing vulnerability of the outcome. The only place in the UK at the moment where no-excuse, on-demand postal voting is banned is in N.Ireland.
London Elections
Entirely hand-counted x
Count achieved on the same night √
Full access to observers including postal signatures √
Compulsory mailouts of postal voting forms x
Early in-person voting x
Points Rating: 0/20
Counted at a localised location by locals x
Securely sealed chain of custody of in-person votes until count time √
Wide-scale availability of on-demand postal voting √
Percentage of postal votes: unknown
Colour Rating: Red
Uses STV and international machine-counting corporations. Switching back to non-STV, will have to see if they will abandon the machines too!
No Corruption Alliance – Fair Elections Points Rating System 1st edition by Daryl Brown
How the points are rated: Points are deducted from an initial score of twenty.
Entirely hand-counted Yes 0 points No 20 points
Count acheived on the same night Yes 0 points No 4 points
Full access to observers including postal signatures Yes 0 points No 10 points
Compulsory mailouts of postal voting forms Yes 20 points No 0 points
Early in-person voting Yes 20 points No 0 points
Counted at a localised location by locals Yes 0 points No 8 points
Securely sealed chain of custody of in-person votes until count time Yes 0 points No 20 points
Wide-scale availability of on-demand postal voting Yes 3 points No 0 points
Postal Each percent of postal vote is 0.2 points off the score.
Colour code descriptions:
Green = Good (over 17 points)
Yellow = Okay but improvements needed (under 17 points)
Orange = Some big problems occuring (under 13 points)
Red = If you are not being provided demonstrably transparent free and fair elections, why should you pay tax? (under 6 points)
What can be done if free and fair elections are denied to us?
Do you feel your elections are transparent and fair? If not then you might want to withhold tax as leverage. Then you could potentially adapt our websites open source code into a useful tax rebellion leveraging tool. Any successful and reasonable objective-driven tax rebellion should include a clear red-line demand, with a set time frame, and with a forceful determination over a very wide consensus.
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