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Ballot booth sticker

Sam | 07.05.2010 10:41 | Culture | History | Social Struggles

Feeling conflicted by the I'm an anarchist/but the chartists and suffragettes, dichotomy?- balence it out a bit with stickers.

ballot booth

This one in bristol reads 'airport expansion harms you and those around you'.

Sam

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Stickers

07.05.2010 12:45

I left a trail of 'Don't vote, take control' Afed stickers up the road - after going to vote! It's not lawful to put political stickers in polling booths (or take photos either, how did you manage that?)

Pinkolady

do your own message

07.05.2010 13:42

Who cares if it's not lawful to sticker a voting booth?

Even better than pre-made single-issue stickers, write your own on sticky labels (eg about the need to overthrow the system as a whole)... sneak them in up your sleeve, easy!

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unlawful ?

07.05.2010 16:09

It is certainly not unlawful, under common law, to put up a sticker or take a photograph in a polling station. Can any one identify any specific act of parliament which sugests it may be illegal under statute legislation?

Why is everyone so worried that they maybe doing something that may be against parleaments wishes, whilst they go about their lawful business? I took a several flash photographs of my ballot paper and on one complained.

a free man

Why it is illegal to take photos in a polling station

07.05.2010 16:42

1) so as not to intimidate voters.

2) to stop people selling their vote (or being forced to vote one way by their landlord/employer and using the photograph as proof. This was very common an one time. It's not allowed to sign your name on the ballot for the same reason.

Not that I voted myself, I'm not sure any of the main parties are much different to each other. But if you want to, I'm sure it does not harm either.

anon

Media Art

07.05.2010 21:31

Thats great, you got that real arty farty soft focus, or digital digital focal length through the bottom of a beer glass. Which renders the whole thing unreadable, but yeah real cool..

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