Competition Time

Looking ahead to the Glasgow North East and Norwich by-elections, the Stamp Out Voting Fraud campaign, is starting a Twitter competition to guess how many postal votes will cast in each of the two elections.

Readers will remember what happened in the Glenrothes by-election when the number of postal votes cast shot up from the 2005 general election number of 3,125 to 6,925. Then the marked register went missing so parties could not check who actually voted!

There were 11,361 postal votes counted in 2005 in Norwich out of a total of 47,033. In Glasgow there were 1,617 out of a total of 28,418 votes!  Source: Electoral Commission

The lucky winners (there are two separate competitions one for each by-election) will get a free copy of our book Unlocking Democracy: Twenty Years of Charter 88

Competition Rules
All guesses should be left on Twitter (to follow me see the link on the right hand side).  Alternatively you can leave them in the comments section on the website. 
The deadline for each seperate competition will be 10pm on Polling Day when the Polling Stations have closed.
People can vote how many times they wish.
If no one guesses the actual number, the nearest guess will be used.
Judges decision is final.