Just so that folk know. I took photos of both sides of envelope A - TopicsExpress

Just so that folk know. I took photos of both sides of envelope A (including the postal voting statement) and envelope B and the ballot paper too. I can confirm that I had a barcode on all three of them. Photos saved on my phone. Lets just say that from day 1 my suspicions were high. Especially since the Communications Workers Union (CWU) had told their members in the Royal Mail (as well as in BT), ie the posties that collected the postal ballots, that they would lose their jobs in event of a Yes vote. Of course it would be easy enough to identify postal boxes more likely to have higher concentration of Yes votes than No votes, even without getting intelligence from samples. Incidentally, from the samples it would be easy enough to develop a very accurate profile of Yes and No voters to enable No to really coordinate and focus their dire warnings and campaign in general (on the ground and in the press). Surely the union of the people collecting and sorting the postal ballots should have been legally barred from exerting any pressure on those workers, at the very least it is unfair pressure on them and it definitely gives them a vested interest. Furthermore, how difficult would it really have been for the establishment to infiltrate the Royal Mail? It would not exactly be hard to have duplicate ballot papers (barcode or not) and even the DVLA has an electronic copy of your signature. Among many of the folk who I met who were voting No a high percentage told me that it was because they had been told that they would lose their job, their partner would lose their job or their children would lose their jobs. The list included the Royal Mail, the civil service, Glasgow City Councils council tax office, customs and passports and the Ministry of Defence. If there was a fix, they certainly had it covered.