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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/orglondonelectionsreport.pdf
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/orglondonelectionsreport.pdf
1050 On count day, efforts towards transparency around the recording of valid votes were nothing more than a pretence: hundreds of screens were set up by the scanners to show almost meaningless data to observers, party candidates and agents, while officials admit that underneath the system was likely to be recording blank ballots as valid votes.
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Several observers reported "ghost ballots" that were stuck in the system but could not be located, which caused delays to the declaration and transmission of results. Further delays were caused in at least one constituency, where discrepancies at the verification stage appeared to approach the margin of the winning candidate, causing unease among candidates and party agents. The CRO attempted to calm the situation, stating that "This has been verified by KPMG, so it will add up". One candidate asked "So we have to take it on trust…?‖, to which the CRO replied ―Well, it‘s double-scanning and…<shrug>‖.
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One agent commented to ORG observers: ―There are half a dozen votes being entered from this box and there‘s nobody here to see. He could have entered anything he liked. If that‘s going on at tables up and down here, then anything could be happening. With a manual count, you are nearer the table, and you can see that ballots are properly counted as they are put into candidate trays. It‘s very clear.‖
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because officials were unable to record likely causes of ballot box variance, this check has been obscured. In its place is a dataset that is open to question, with potentially as many as 41,000 ballots unaccounted for and the only justification being human error at any one or more of at least three stages in the election administration process.
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seals had been misapplied to ballot boxes so that the boxes could have been opened from the bottom leaving the seals applied to the tops intact. It is of significant concern that seals were already detached before the count began.
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Family voting and other instances of invasion of voter privacy were frequently reported by observers. One observer reports being told by a Presiding Officer that family voting was ―endemic for Continentals and Indians. It‘s part of their culture. I can‘t stop it, so why fight it?‖. ORG is shocked by this attitude.
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conclusion
1080 ORG concludes that there is insufficient evidence available to independent observers to state reliably whether the results declared are an accurate representation of the intentions of voters in the May 2008 London elections.