AIBU to ask you to please ONLY fold your voting paper in half!

[BurnTheBlackSuit]

I am counting tonight, and whilst I get paid more the long the count goes on, it is so annoying when people have folded their votes into 4 or 8 or made a swan out of it before posting it in the ballot box.

Please please, just a simple fold in half - one crease- there is absolutely no need to do any more folds than this!!!

Never thought of it, my origami skills stop at paper hat and boat though.

I never understood why people folded at all to be honest.

The man who gave me mine pre folded it in half too!

I don't think many people in my area will bother to vote to be honest so maybe I could have made an origami animal.

The man who gave me mine pre folded it in half too!

I don't think many people in my area will bother to vote to be honest so maybe I could have made an origami animal.

At my polling station I was told to fold it in half, one fold only. Which I did cos I'm a good girl, me .

When I last voted for the London Mayor I was told I wasn't allowed to fold it. So I had to walk back to the table where the boxes were and try to get it in there with the people queuing trying to have a good nose at who I'd voted for. I like to fold it once.

We were specifically asked to fold ours twice by the people in the polling station this morning.

Folding it is just to stop nosy buggers looking at your vote while you put it in the box. You don't have to fold it, but because we have the right to a confidential vote the advice is to do so to stop aforementioned nosy buggers getting their satisfaction having an excuse to cat's bum face at you in the polling station.

I will try my best OP, depends on the slots at my local polling station.

The people at the polling box told me to fold it twice because it doesn't fit easily in the slot otherwise

Mine was pre-folded too Hello sunshine, so being an obedient type I put it into the box like that. I assume that some people fold it again because they think it'll be extra secret that way.

I postal voted. So no fold, but you'll have to open the envelope

I folded once this morning. I would love to learn how to do an origami swan vote though.

Dammit I was going to do a shoe. I've been practicing origami-ing everything for weeks.

The lady who watches over voting at my station runs a tight ship, I reckon she'd make you do it again if you did above the required amount of folds.

Mine was pre-folded in half! It didn't enter my head that I could also make shapes out of it!

Just folded twice- sorry! Wouldn't have fitted otherwise...

Mine was pre folded in half too, so I went with that

How do you get a job doing the counting and what is the pay?

Gotcha. Will fold just once.

I would love to help with the counting. (Frustrated ex-supermarket checkout manager.) How can I get involved in that?

xposted with AnthonyPandy.

I'll do it for unlimited cups of tea free.

I fold in half for privacy which I know is pointless as they have a number on it which corresponds to my name

I've worked as a polling clerk and we were taught to pre-fold the ballot papers once, then open them up before handing them to the voter. As the OP said, multiple folds slows the count down. Some still chose to fold it more times though.

burn

silly question but how do we trust the vote counters?

Out of interest, how many other people are there in your polling stations to possibly see your voting paper?

We vote in a portaloo portakabin and there's only ever one person at a time in there! There are two officials/helpers/clerks but I shouldn't imagine they're interested in seeing everyone's paper are they? It would get a bit boring by about 7.30am.

Well, if we don't trust them, we're absolutely stuffed. I suppose we trust them because if they were discovered falsifying votes or throwing any away it would be instant dismissal. But in the last analysis most people in the public sector at some level have a strong belief in the value of what they're doing, so will do the right thing.

Do you tell people what to do at work. I'll fold my vote as I want and because of this will do some origami with it after all it is my vote not yours