Spot the problem?

Thought I would, unusually, just re-produce some information I received this evening by e-mail ... have a look at this and no prizes for spotting the electoral problem ;-))


"Using data from the Glasgow City Council website, have now completed the analysis of the spoilt papers for the Scottish Parliament elections and the City Council elections in the Glasgow Electoral Region.

Have used the totals given for spoilt papers, nearly all of which were classed as "Voting for More Than One Candidate" or "Unmarked or Void for Uncertainty". Most of the spoilt papers in the Constituency elections were classed as "Unmarked or Void for Uncertainty", which suspect means mostly blank.

Scottish Parliament Elections 2007
Ten Constituencies in Glasgow Electoral Region
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Regional Vote
Total: 215,667
Spoilt: 9,000
% Spoilt 4.2%

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Constituency Vote - ten constituencies
Total: 215,667
Spoilt: 16,933
% Spoilt 7.9%

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10 individual Constituencies
4.8% 5.4% 5.8% 7.3% 7.3% 8.8% 9.7% 9.8% 10.2%12.1%

Do not have access to the Constituency breakdown of the Regional vote data.

Local Government STV Elections 2007
Glasgow City 21 Wards
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Total 192,881
Spoilt 4,505
% Spoilt 2.3%

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21 individual Wards
1.5% 1.5% 1.6% 1.6% 1.8% 1.8% 1.9%2.1% 2.1% 2.2% 2.2% 2.4% 2.6% 2.6% 2.7% 2.7% 3.0% 3.1% 3.3% 4.0% 4.2% "


These figures (for the AMS Scottish Parliament election) are a lot worse than I had earlier mentioned for Edinburgh - here.