The turnout for the by-election was 28% with 964 votes cast and only four
spoiled ballot papers.
Returning officers in Rugby, Ipswich and North Norfolk reported hundreds of
spoiled ballot papers with Brexit scrawled over them.
But it was the messages on
spoiled ballot papers which showed that it was the inability to sort out Brexit which really riled voters.
Coun Glenis Slater, leader of the Lib Dems, said she had detected a lot of anger on the doorstep and had seen many
spoiled ballot papers while watching the count.
It makes provisions for virtually every eventuality on election day including
spoiled ballot, papers, over voting, recount of votes etc.
In the runoff, 5.64 per cent, or 22,951 registered voters, cast a blank or
spoiled ballot. But this paled in comparison to the 46,038 more votes that Anastasiades obtained over Malas.
Despite the impression misleadingly given by Sunday Politics, there's no such official entity as a "
spoiled ballot".
His claims came hard on the heels of a 96 per cent rejection of a threeyear pay deal worth 14 per cent, with 12,881 members voting against, just 454 voting to accept and 17
spoiled ballot papers.
The controversial proposal received 40 no votes, 15 people voted in favour of the bid and there was one
spoiled ballot at a meeting last night.
The judge deemed that this ballot had been mistakenly placed in the ballot box and should have been in the
spoiled ballot envelope instead.
Showing dozens of
spoiled ballot papers to journalists, Khetran demanded ECP to verify the thumb impressions on ballot papers in his constituency, through NADRA's biometric system.
One
spoiled ballot paper - one small, suitably futile blow against the ruling elite; the insuperable centre ground, destined to bore us to tears for a thousand years.