Oh good grief, just let it go. The 'stories' are taken off social media with no evidence and jsut constantly repeated. There was no rigging going along, just a small group of bitter Yes voters unable to accept the result.
I wonder if conspiracy theorising can be clinically diagnosed?
They would have a field day on the DS Forum. Go and take a look at some of the comments after the summer edition of Big Brother. It makes for fascinating reading.
I wonder how many of the people complaining have ever voted before and actually understand the concept of voting.
Considering how many people seem to think the fact it was a pencil rather than a pen in the voting booth was suspicious shows none of them had ever voted before!
Not being asked for ID is common, and there's only really an issue if someone else turns up claiming the same address. And then you're given a different slip which means it can be recorded and investigated.
There are methods in place to deal with potential fraud and these conspiracy theorists don't have a clue.
Postal votes are a much bigger problem but that's down to buying votes from people, and I doubt either side was doing that because I think this was a situation where people wanted to make their vote count.
Those 'more reports and suspicious', are simply examples of people showing they don't know how the voting process normally works, and failing to apply basic reasoning skills because it's easier than admitting the general public didn't agree with them.
Too many people were caught up in a Facebook bubble, thinking that the people of their acquaintance who made the most noise were representative of the whole country. If we've learnt anything, it's that the Yes approach of making a lot of noise on social media may have been a handy tool for convincing the mainstream media to give them more coverage, but it's no substitute for our individual crosses in boxes.
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Oh good grief, just let it go. The 'stories' are taken off social media with no evidence and jsut constantly repeated. There was no rigging going along, just a small group of bitter Yes voters unable to accept the result.
Uncanny, isn't it?
I wonder if conspiracy theorising can be clinically diagnosed?
If you fancy a read:
http://conspiracypsychology.com/
Or watching/listening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXgE0HMMLw
They would have a field day on the DS Forum. Go and take a look at some of the comments after the summer edition of Big Brother. It makes for fascinating reading.
Wow...just wow. That's any rumour just regurgitated.
Time people grew up to be honest. Bit pathetic.
cutting edge investigative press, that
*snigger*
All this cunning manipulation and fraud. I'm off to North Korea ...
Considering how many people seem to think the fact it was a pencil rather than a pen in the voting booth was suspicious shows none of them had ever voted before!
the 45 , putting the dumb in scottishreferedumblogspot
There are methods in place to deal with potential fraud and these conspiracy theorists don't have a clue.
Postal votes are a much bigger problem but that's down to buying votes from people, and I doubt either side was doing that because I think this was a situation where people wanted to make their vote count.
Those 'more reports and suspicious', are simply examples of people showing they don't know how the voting process normally works, and failing to apply basic reasoning skills because it's easier than admitting the general public didn't agree with them.
Too many people were caught up in a Facebook bubble, thinking that the people of their acquaintance who made the most noise were representative of the whole country. If we've learnt anything, it's that the Yes approach of making a lot of noise on social media may have been a handy tool for convincing the mainstream media to give them more coverage, but it's no substitute for our individual crosses in boxes.