UKIP already talking legal challenge to Euro Elections

The polling stations have only been open for a couple of hours, but UKIP are already talking about mounting a legal challenge to the European elections.

In their official communication, UKIP write:

UKIP is being inundated with calls from voters complaining that UKIP is not on the ballot paper.

Voting has only been going on for three hours and already hundreds are calling the UK Independence Party to complain that they were not able to vote for the party.

The problem is that Returning Officers have been folding the ballot papers. They have been folding them so that the last two, three or four parties in alphabetical order are hidden when the first fold of the paper is opened. It thus appears that UKIP is not on the ballot paper.

UKIP has already contacted both the Electoral Commission and the Returning Officers on this matter.

But it is important that the news gets out: that voters must make sure they completely unfold the ballot paper. And that Returning Officers and electoral officials must stop folding the ballot papers.

We have had reports from Carlisle, from York, from Hampshire, Dartford and other places, showing that the problem is nationwide, not just an isolated incident.

UKIP is collecting the names and addresses of those complaining and will be preparing the grounds for a legal challenge to the election result.

The Talking Clock can report that we experienced no such problems here in Westminster. Our ballot paper was not folded, UKIP was on the ballot paper, and both The Talking Clock and Mrs. Clock put their X's next to UKIP's name.

Only ten people had voted by 8am when Mr. and Mrs. Clock went to vote, so we can report at least a 20% poll return for UKIP from our polling station at that time...

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