Officer Folding
Are Polling station staff allowed to look at your ballot paper once you’ve marked it? (See additional details)?
I just voted and on the back of my poll card it said ‘Show the presiding officer the number and other unique identifying mark on the back of the ballot paper but do not let anyone see your vote’. I asked who was supposed to see the number and a man took my ballot paper, looked at the number, then opened it and looked at my vote!
Then he told me to fold the paper again and post it in the ballot box. I’m still slightly shocked that this happened.
No, that is definitely not normal. That has never happened to me.
You go in, give them your polling card. They check your name off, on a sheet. They should check the number before they give you the ballot paper. They give you the ballot paper, you go to a booth to vote, fold the sheet in two, and put it in the ballot box.
Petty Officer Third Class Rodriguez Folding A Shirt, “Navy Style”
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