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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Yep, we have the same system in the UK. In fact, the envelope looks almost exactly the same so they might even be printed by the same company.

    You get two envelopes (one big, one small), a postal voting statement, and a ballot paper.

    The actual ballot paper just has a list of options for you to put your X against; there’s no personally identifiable information on it. Once you’ve filled it out you seal it in the small envelope.

    You then fill in the voting statement (it has your name and address on it so they can cross your name off as voted, and you sign it so they can check your signature matches the one on file) and both that and the sealed ballot go in the big envelope. That way your vote is still private because they check the vote is valid in one step and then add your ballot to a pile to be counted with the others in a second step, at which point it’s anonymous.

    https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/ways-vote/how-vote-post


  • Was it that the PDF produced by latex was less OCR friendly than the word one, or just that you didn’t submit the PDF at all most of the time?

    I guess if you trained a program to OCR PDFs that are produced by word it might get really good at that and less good at PDFs from other sources.

    I’m curious if your CV font was computer modern?















  • To be fair, she is relatively unknown.

    Especially when you consider low information voters (which I expect have similar knowledge to high information voters from other countries).

    Her honeymoon period will end as soon as she sits down and does a few serious and unscripted interviews about policy, which she has managed to avoid so far. At the moment it’s pure vibes, but at some point you need to get into the business of explaining what you would do and being challenged on it. That will generate lots of attack angles and media stories, both good and bad.