Coordinating spoilt ballots

It is sad, isn’t it? 7 candidates in my constituency and I couldn’t enthusiastically vote for any of them.

I know the sitting Labour MP a little, and I know he’s been fully brought up to speed on the issues by a number of local, vocal, terves (some of whom have known him since he was born!) but he’s a party-line politician who’ll be picking the splinters of this debate out of his arse for the next decade.

I spoiled mine. I put an x for both labour and green and wrote they don't know what a woman is in both.

I wavered for quite a while in the booth, then just did it as I couldn't do anything else with good conscience. I'm not happy, but more happy than with any of other options, we had no women's party or independents, just the 5.

I did this today and was sad but didn't feel I could vote. I left a message too.

Sarah Phillimore has posted on TwiX that she's spoiled her ballot so we're in good company!😁

Great thread. Are you keeping a record of the numbers here OP. Seems as though the campaign is rolling along quite nicely. We have a voice. Thank you to everyone who has been angry enough to do this.

Me too!
And I met a teacher on the way in who said she was thinking about doing the same given the safe seat and smug complacency of our Labour candidate.
I got a response to an email about conversion therapy yesterday that Id sent 2 weeks before from a handmaiden that clarified once and for all that they either dont understand whats at stake, or dont care.

I'd imagine you'd have felt weird shrinking again after taking it off. Must see if I can try one out some time.

I can't remember. I did try it on once but it was a long time ago. It felt great being so BIG but weird to have my 'head' brushing the ceiling.

There's a thought. How do they keep the suits inflated? Have they got battery powered fans?

Brilliant! I wish I'd thought of that. I have access to one of those dinosaur suits although I guess the effect would have been slightly spoiled by having to deflate myself for the ID check. 😁

OMG that’s hilarious. Especially the video, bemused bystander expressions and all.

Damn, reading back I wish I’d taken Suffragette sharpies.

Dinosaur woman and her dinosaur friend did it.

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After much deliberation I decided to spoil. I put:

Protect women’s spaces
Protect children’s bodies
No suitable candidate.

I felt very sad leaving the polling station. What a sorry state of affairs.

I went for "Left wing adult human female."

I've just done mine, put multiple lines straight through all the boxes and then massive scribbles across them. I then went with "woman = adult human female", "Labour Losing Women", "respect my sex if you want my X" and "I stand with JK Rowling". Thought I'd cover the whole sheet!

If the XX is in a box I think there's a high chance of it being counted as a vote.

maybe I will do an XX instead of an X, plus my sticker

I'm OK with that, as I would also be OK with it being considered spoiled. I couldn't decide. My constituency's so marginal that every contestable paper is likely to be scrutinised.

Agree with the PP about noisy ‘scratching’ of pens! I took a ‘soft nibbed” one in too but those booths must have special amplification properties.

I couldn't think of anything witty, I wrote "Labour, Lib Dems and Greens don't respect women" in big green capitals all over it, and used the pencil to put a long vertical line through all the candidates' boxes, as suggested by a poster upthread.

I wrote ((2-3 words to a line in the space between candidate name and box)…

‘There is no such thing as a woman with a penis’

and then drew a little cock and balls in the Labour candidate box.

(hopefully they will scrutinise as to whether it counts as a vote or not!)

i thought about Magdelen Berns while I scribbled.

I think if you want your vote to count, you should mark with an X.

I am going to vote Labour very begrudgingly, but am going to sticker something on ballot paper as we are v marginal seat - 90 votes in it last time so good chance of everything having to be double checked

Anyone know if I should do an X or a more ambiguous mark - a single line or something - to make them have to look twice or do they have to look twice cos I will have stickered on a comment?

Well I did it! Had a bit of a wobble earlier so checked some online articles about my candidate and seeing them giving an award at Pink News confirmed it for me. Put 3 stickers on my ballot paper. Felt a bit tearful when I walked out of the polling station tbh. However, its a safe Labour seat so it won't affect the vote, I did it for me.

Well done everyone! X