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Tag: elections

  • My contribution to the long-standing British tradition of photographing dogs at polling stations. Don't forget to vote, folks!

    Full image of A French Bulldog stands alongside a polling station sign that's been attached to a bike rack.
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    A French Bulldog stands alongside a polling station sign that's been attached to a bike rack.

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 1 May, 2025
  • Sign on the fence of a school playground reading, in block capitals: "Polling station for Dan Q's imaginary friends only".

    Council Disenfranchisement

    West Oxfordshire District Council seem to want to disenfranchise me by requiring that I bring photo ID to a polling station with a different name on it than the photo ID that they themselves issued.

    Read more (465 words)

    • Article
    • 7 comments
    • posted 13 April, 2024
  • Map showing the 326 UK constituencies with the smallest electorate size

    How Few Votes Can Win a UK General Election?

    What's the minimum number of votes a party can get and still win a UK general election? Let's try to find an answer...

    Read more - about 3 minutes (503 words)

    • Article
    • posted 21 October, 2018
  • Gerrymandering

    How the manipulation of boundaries can adjust voting outcomes.

    DataGenetics

    Read more - about 1 minutes (10 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 5 April, 2015
  • Image representing post: On This Day In 2005

    On This Day In 2005

    On this day in 2005, Dan received an unusual parcel. No, you're not reading the same post twice... this is not a fault... just deja vu!

    Read more - about 4 minutes (817 words)

    • Article
    • 6 comments
    • posted 4 May, 2012
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #40:

    Fail to get elected as one of the two student representatives of module CS12320 (Concepts In Programming). What else could I expect? I was nominated against my will, gave an awe-inspiring speech, that declared that "if I get this position, โ€ฆ

    Read more (194 words)

    • Article
    • posted 6 November, 1999

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