The Parliamentary By-Election for the Glenrothes Constituency for Fife
Council was one of the most hotly contested and publicised by -elections in recent
years with an 80% turnout of postal voters. It was delivered by OPT2VOTE’s team of
election management specialists on 6th November and was the first election in Fife
since the introduction of Personal Identifiers (PIs).
OPT2VOTE successfully delivered its Postal Vote Management Solution which
works with all EMS systems and included the provision of a postal vote management
team (including the staff to process returned postal votes) and all equipment.
OPT2VOTE also provided a full print service delivering poll cards, ballot papers and
postal packs.
Iain Grant, Fife Council commented,
“OPT2VOTE provided an excellent and timely service. The system used to prepare,
proof and sign off documentation was simple and easy to use. This was the first
election in Scotland where the Returning Officer was required to verify personal
identifiers on postal vote statements and with the help of OPT2VOTE and its Postal
Vote Management System we achieved 100% verification The staff of OPT2VOTE
were helpful and responded well to questions or issues raised by the Election
Team.”
The Election was attended by representatives from 10 other constituencies. The
event was a great success and OPT2VOTE is looking forward to running more
elections in the Scotland Region.
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Well, what's wrong with that? Scotland is a region - of the EU!
But it also forms part of that "arc of prosperity" (which includes Iceland) that your cuddly Mr Salmond described so beautifully!
Don't you just love politicians?
Opt2Vote says the Glenrothes by-election was "a great success." Amazing, unexpected or even incredible perhaps but surely not 'great'. Whatever did happen to that missing Register btw? I understood the SNP were on the case; has it turned up yet?
OPT2VOTE successfully delivered its Postal Vote Management Solution.
They did that alright. The solution to Brown's immediate survival. Crooks. Dig deep enough you'll find some Labour involvement.
Morning gentlemen, no GV I think the register has perhaps gone to the great register home in the sky or even an attic near you.
Ted you never miss a trick do you :) Don't forget to roll your egg today before you eat that lamb now!
What surprised me Oldrightie is why didn't the media report that this new system was used. Strange, I've a feeling somehow we weren't supposed to know in case of comment. I'm surprised one of the other parties didn't comment about it.
Opt2vote is a partner company of Northgate, which hosts Labour sites such as www.davethechameleon.com and www.labour.org.uk
The Open Rights Group had this to say about Opt2vote
ORG was unable to examine or verify the servers or systems they used in any meaningful sense. While ORG considers that the physical security for the ES&S and Tata locations was reasonable—and very good for the OPT2VOTE location observed —ORG is unable to comment further on the servers. Without more information on the specifications of the systems and clear rules on the access observers could request in pilot situations, ORG was restricted to what the suppliers were willing to offer or what their clients were willing to support. No matter what access was provided, fundamentally the servers are opaque to the human eye. No observer would be able to examine what the server was doing, what data it was sending and receiving or whether problems were occurring, without detailed technical access to the software and its operating system, yet it would be inappropriate and is clearly against guidelines for observers to handle anything to do with the running of the election. Hence ORG must conclude that the servers and their operations were—and will remain in future elections—unobservable.
The same report says of the Electoral Commission:
How does DCA or the Electoral Commission know about the extent of electoral fraud when neither of them have kept any statistics nor have undertaken any research on the issue? Is it that, in their obsession with increasing participation at all costs, they have turned a blind eye to the risks of electoral fraud and its consequences on the integrity of our democratic system?
Labour have form on fiddling postal votes:
Get the votes and we can win, but don't get caught with them
This company is head quartered in London/Derry!
N Ireland is hardly the epitome of probity in political voting systems.
Vote early and often!
Indeed FC and I must thank you for bringing this to my attention, I mean the fact that such a company was used but not publicised.
Didn't know how to put courtesy of Faux Cu on the post when you don't have a blog. Perhaps I should have done without a link come to think of it.
I shall do so in future.
Vronsky now that is interesting.
Good post.
I hadn't seen the Times article on Leeds, or heard anything about Opt2Vote.
The plot thickens.
Good post.
I hadn't seen the Times article on Leeds, or heard anything about Opt2Vote.
The plot thickens.
Sorry if that came through twice.
That's ok OutLander, I can't be bothered deleting it. Been deleting half the day by the feel of it.
Aye the plot thickens. Maybe some insider could tell us more.
“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do. ”
Uncle Josef Stalin
SubRosa:
I loved you when they used to let me comment at the Guardian..........I think I love you even more now! :o)
X That's a big smackeroonee just for you.
Well thank you Silent Hunter. First one today too - and possibly the last knowing my luck :)
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