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Originally Posted by michael mcgough
AB; are you taking into account the weighting system and the fact that one can vote for all candidates,some or one only.Are you not guilty of smearing AB?????????????
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Before making such unhelpful statements, perhaps you could please do us the courtesy of a quick search on your own party's website?
UKIP - Results of the NEC elections March 2008
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The voting results in the ballot on 20 March 2008 for members of the NEC were as follows:
Lisa Duffy 3370; Michael Zuckerman 3302; Eric Edmond 2385; Douglas Denny 2378; John West 2307; Andrew Smith 2001; David Bendall 1656; John Whiffen 1498; Geoffrey Collier 1424; Paul Henke 1411; David Nixon 1258; Bruce Lawson 1229; William Robinson 709; Victor Webb 617.
The number of valid returned ballot papers was 6,565 out of 15,862 sent out, a turnout of 41.4%.
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I didn't make the numbers up. Yes, they are very different voting systems, but Lisa Duffy still received more votes (3370) than Nigel Farage did for leader (3329), and the number of ballots was still nearly 3 times more than previous years. Very few activists normally vote in the NEC elections, but this time around, three times as many decided to vote and no one has provided a single reason why.
I really can't see how anyone sane could think that this is not highly unusual.
Anyway, that it was a highly irregular result isn't in question for anyone who hasn't got UKIP partisan disease; the real discussion was about John's decision not to investigate (AFAIK). From what I have seen (and he may have had different/more information) it looks like a poor decision on this occasion and one that has left unanswered questions and doubts in many people's minds about the reliability of UKIP's internal elections.
That was the purpose of my original posting - to add in a bit more information about John Bufton. As a long term employee, he has a track record that can, and should, be examined. As I said, RS seemed very happy with his performance as an RO and I don't recall anyone ever saying anything bad about him, which is an achievement in UKIP.