Gregoire by 8 votes

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Western European elections do not. Face it.

Except Northern Ireland o/c

[Filuwaúrdjan]

But I've never heard there are any problem with the most basic points, ie, the voter register, the actual counting of votes, the prevention of ballot box stuffing...at least not since the Army marched in 35 years ago.

The problem in Northern Ireland is "Vote Early, Vote Often"...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So they do have ballot box stuffing?

More or less. All four big parties have people in most constituencies who vote early in the morning, change their clothes etc and go back to vote again later. Sometimes several more times.
It's particulary bad in North Belfast o/c...

In rural areas there are (this is true, BTW) people that go around from polling station to polling station in buses...

Mind you, since the big registration purge a few years back, things aren't as bad as they were.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

There are some cool maps at

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/maps/maps.htm

Distribution of Cathoics at ward level subset has some good ones.

Great site!

More maps for me to look at... thanks :-)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Nice thread hijack we've executed here.

True. One of the best for a while :-)