You've got the supposed 'worldly wisdom' so I'll ask you a question.
Is it within the rules that candidates need to abide by?
Why bring up candidates? No candidate was involved - unless you are suggesting that the offending teller was instructed to break the law in this way. No one has the right to do anything that might prevent someone else from voting. In this case it was a party activist appointed by their party to sit outside the polling station and irritate voters (okay that is a personal response to tellers). That a teller, who has absolutley zero official status, should presume to go so far as to tell a prospective voter that they cannot go in and vote is dreadful behaviour and must surely be a breach of election law - I hope to hear that he/she is appearing in the magistrates court to receive a serious fine. Back to tellers - I always refuse to give them my name or number, or let them see my voting card. I must admit it works better when I don't know any of the tellers, one year I found myself walking past my next door neighbour, my silence was pretty pointless on that occasion. |
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