Of course the beauty of this scheme is that by singing up for it you immediately go on Verizon's records as someone who appears to have something to hide. Sounds rather like the scheme some years ago when the UK government arranged for an article / book to publicly suggest that terrorists didn't bother with life insurance when taking a plane trip. Needless to say, having suggested a way for terrorists to hide their tracks by signing up for life insurance, anyone who then signed up for life insurance when booking a plane trip promptly became someone of interest to the security services....
I rather think that's the Daily Telegraph's "take" on trying to make something into a news story. Contrary to the general public's view (or what the papers would have us believe is their view) is that judges certainly have a sense of humour (and yes, I do happen to know a number) but it's hardly politic for them to exercise humour in court. I really do doubt any judge would expect, or wish, to set themselves up as humour critics. I rather think the only issue they would be prepared to decide would be one of whether or not humour was the intent of the mashup / parody / etc
Could this by any chance be linked to recent comments by the government about having smaller suppliers included in the next round of government contracts (since contracting with major suppliers has proven such a resounding success in the past)?
There have certainly been reports of such but from a cursory search they would seem to all emanate from one party. When I attended to vote the ballot paper for the European election was certainly folded. But it was of such a size I can't see how on earth anyone could mark their vote without first unfolding it fully (otherwise it wouldn't open at all)
Not a bad point but the article is still a misreading of the statute. It refers to "persons", not the voter himself/herself publishing how they voted. Though personally I think it's extremely bad manners to do so.
Precisely. The key bit is "any information obtained in a polling station". The information wasn't obtained in a polling station. You (presumably? Hopefully?) knew who you were going to vote for before and after the fact. The clear inference in s66(3)(c) is that it refers to you tweeting information about someone else's vote. You can go outside and broadcast the information as to how *you* voted as much or as little as you like. Mind you, I'd be more than a little irritated at some clown taking photos in a polling station...
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Sounds rather like the scheme some years ago when the UK government arranged for an article / book to publicly suggest that terrorists didn't bother with life insurance when taking a plane trip. Needless to say, having suggested a way for terrorists to hide their tracks by signing up for life insurance, anyone who then signed up for life insurance when booking a plane trip promptly became someone of interest to the security services....
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I really do doubt any judge would expect, or wish, to set themselves up as humour critics. I rather think the only issue they would be prepared to decide would be one of whether or not humour was the intent of the mashup / parody / etc
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Though personally I think it's extremely bad manners to do so.
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The clear inference in s66(3)(c) is that it refers to you tweeting information about someone else's vote. You can go outside and broadcast the information as to how *you* voted as much or as little as you like.
Mind you, I'd be more than a little irritated at some clown taking photos in a polling station...
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