If you mean quality of the ballot paper that voters vote on, there's actually a strong spoil control.
If, for whatever reason, a person does not like the ballot they have received (in the mail for absentee-voting, for example) or just marked, they can get a new one, with their old one immediately destroyed. There is some additional processing time, though - of course.
If you mean political broadsheets - well, that's at least as old as media-politics itself. ;-)
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Spoilt ballot papers?
Date: January 5th, 2004 10:12 pm (UTC)From:If, for whatever reason, a person does not like the ballot they have received (in the mail for absentee-voting, for example) or just marked, they can get a new one, with their old one immediately destroyed. There is some additional processing time, though - of course.
If you mean political broadsheets - well, that's at least as old as media-politics itself. ;-)