Fear and Loathing in Mid and West Wales...9 days to go

Blog readings are running at 4,000 per month must be doing something right. Perhaps thats why we had another attack on the blog this morning. Fortunately Neil Wagstaff was only a phone call away. Of course its nothing to do with the election next week. There have been some very unpleasant things going on. I found this forum very interestinghttps://wordpress.org/support/topic/fake-pages-appearing-under-my-domain

This story is very interesting too......Ballot paper error sinks party's campaign slogan

ONE political party has been forced to re-think its slogan after a ballot paper botch-up.

This week it was announced that a printing error on ballot papers sent out to postal voters the regional list elections for the Welsh Assembly meant new ballots had to be issued for Ceredigion and parts of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.

The grey Regional Ballot Paper contains a “small error in the instructions on how to vote”. The correct instructions should state that electors should vote only once by putting a cross in the box next to their choice. The incorrect version wrongly states that electors should vote for only one candidate by putting a cross in the box next to their choice.

The error, which has caused inconvenience to hundreds of voters, has also left the local Green party having to re-think its campaign strategy following the error.

The revised ballot paper being sent out is tan coloured and replaces the initial grey paper which formed the basis of the ‘Vote Green on Grey this May’ campaign.

Leaflets, videos and campaigns will now have to be thrown out and a new campaign launched for the Greens whose spokesperson admitted were “gutted” by the development.

A Green party source said the mid and west Wales region campaign to elect Alice Hooker-Stroud as regional AM had recently printed more leaflets and made a short film for social media which were now both “useless”.

Tom Marshall, Wales Green Party Campaign Manager for the Mid and West Wales region said: “We’ve been running a strong campaign, ‘Vote Green on Grey this May’, encouraging people to vote for Wales Green Party on the grey regional ballot paper to elect Alice Hooker-Stroud in the Mid and West Wales region, so we are extremely disappointed to hear of the error with the ballot papers.

“‘Vote Green on Tan’ just doesn’t have the same ring about it, though we hope voters will do just that to elect Wales’ first Green AM.”

Postal voters in the constituencies of Ceredigion, Preseli Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire are being advised to wait for new ballot papers to be sent to their home.