http://www.globalresearch.ca/scotlands-r...on/5405626
Quote:It started with grainy videos on YouTube, showing official counters doing odd things with the ballot papers. Stories emerged of people at polling stations being told that someone using their name had already voted. Children had been registered to vote. The police “were investigatingâ€, while Westminster pooh-poohed it all.
A small and angry petition was launched by Change.org. First addressed to Alex Salmond it is now going to his Deputy Nicola Sturgeon, and is approaching 100,000 signatures. And yet morehas emerged of the odd and dishonest practices that have appeared to capture the No result so wanted by Westminster. Among them are:
Ballot papers with no identifying marks on the back (illegal)
Ballot boxes from polling stations delivered to counting centres in private cars by only one person (illegal)
Postal ballot papers apparently being sent to England first
Pro-union people being allowed to open and inspect postal votes several days before the referendum (illegal)
And there were no exit polls. Before the referendum various polls said that the No campaign was leading, although the Yes side were catching up. Just before the vote these polls had the Yes side suddenly dropping back even though on the ground the campaign for independence seemed to be getting stronger. But polls are not that accurate, particularly those published by pro-Union media.
Exit polls are. They are conducted outside the polling stations and researchers ask people coming out how they have voted. In the space between the polling stations closing and the counting of votes completed, exit polls give a fairly accurate picture of what the result will be. But the media, particularly the BBC and ITV, were asked not to conduct exit polls. That fact alone convinces me that the Scots have been robbed of their independence. And Westminster should hang its head in shame. More, it should be investigated by the police.