>>Certain people, including candidates, were allowed in the hall -
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IIRC anyone is allowed to watch the procedings.
>>No one was allowed to speak to any of the counters.
When I was counting certain onlookers soon protested if a ballot paper was put in the wrong pile. A waste of breath as all the papers were rechecked.
Papers that were not marked to the normal standard were shown to the "official" observers for an agreement / interpretation of the voting intention. All very civilised
One count I was at had both Hammond and Kelvin MacKensie there plus of course lots of press. That was a distraction.
Some spoiled papers were amusing but others were four letter type messages
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