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(Sorry about the multi posts. 500 char limit very annoying. Machiam breaking up illegal character gathering. This kind of thing limits conversation.) Yes, or at least lose a lot more seats. Unless there's illegal vote tampering.

Once the PAP are out of tricks in the legal book, their only options will be illegal ones. I hope no one, PAP or opposition, will ever do such things, but I can't put my trust in the PAP here, given their history of dirty tricks. We should be vigilant against it. Here's a potential trick...

Voter education is important here. We need to teach the importance of voting with just one X inside one box, or no markings for no vote. Make your statements with fancy symbols and messages before voting day, and just make your choice on voting day. And if more people write about their counting...

Here's a potential trick that's legal : The final decision on ambiguous votes lies with only one person, the counting table chief. Different chiefs may use different criteria, and there are only a few counting agents who can offer their views, but not directly affect the decision. Alex's blog...

"Investigating", detaining and dismissing people and seizing data is also major assholery. It created a climate of fear, and obstructed voter education. If the PAP's statements are vague ("No comment", "we're disappointed in your actions", etc), we should assume worse than baseline intentions...

I think the way to deal with such assholery is to recognize it as such, and educate others about it so more people also recognize it as such. Get people to realize the important of their civil liberties. Any such acts in the past that aren't repealed, and any future such acts by the PAP should...

I was just reading the Parliamentary Elections Act. Item 2b) reads (emphasis mine) "...the definition of “election advertising” shall include doing so by prejudicing the electoral prospects at the election of other political parties, candidates or groups of candidates...". Prejudicing. Such a...

Thanks for the replies, especially the link to Alex's counting agent experience. Yeah there's all kinds of technically legal, but rotten things the PAP can do, like gerrymandering, using upgrading as a carrot and stick, etc. They also get to write the book on what's legal, and give themselves...

I'm not waiting another 5 years after 2016, and I don't trust the PAP to keep their hands off the ballot boxes. What are the things we can do? How does election monitoring work here? (Btw the Palmer random question needs to be fixed. "himself" should be correct mah)