...oh. Yes, I saw a report saying "due to the word brexit", and thought, that was a real stretch: in that case, you'd know what you probably meant, but asking returning officers to judge which policy goes best with which party sounds like a judgement call threatening to go too far and be too subject to differing opinions. But there was an arrow pointing right at the candidate? Then I'm outraged the other way, how can people write an outraged article and leave out the main part? :(
I acknowledge it could have been the reverse, meaning "anything but them", but I agree that's less likely.
I should have had more faith: I know the procedure for counting ballots is really good, and I know headlines are often outright false, but I was worried the system had started to be undermined (as many people try to do :()
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Date: 2019-05-06 10:32 am (UTC)I acknowledge it could have been the reverse, meaning "anything but them", but I agree that's less likely.
I should have had more faith: I know the procedure for counting ballots is really good, and I know headlines are often outright false, but I was worried the system had started to be undermined (as many people try to do :()