On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:06:12 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

T i m wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I spoil my paper as at least it shows I *can*
'be bothered' to turn up make my mark.

It doesn't because they don't distinguish between deliberately
and accidentally or ignorantly spoiled ballot papers.

Funny. I was watching the Tooting by-election
results on TV yesterday and they did just that!

We'll see...

(Proving you wrong once again).

Wrong, as always with the referendum.

Cite? (No, didn't think you could).

They counted all the valid results and spilt the rest
up into two categories (one being 'Undecided').

That is nothing even remotely like counting the
deliberately spoiled ballot papers separately.

Cite?

If everyone who wasn't privy to the FACTS and therefore
wasn't in a position to actually make the correct decision for
all concerned (potentially mostly for the 'younger people')

Why are they less likely to be privy to the FACTS ?

Who?

Those you had in brackets.

Whoosh.

I was saying that it was the 'younger people' who were most likely to
be impacted by the result (especially an Exit one), if for no other
reason that they should have longer to live with the consequences of
said result.

did that, the result might be:

Turnout: 90%
In: 10%
Out 10%
Undecided (without knowing things like *exactly* what
concessions could be agreed before we say yes to staying
in and exactly what difference that might then make): 80%

No one is ever in any position to know *exactly* what
concessions could be agreed before we say yes to
staying in and exactly what difference that might
then make because not even the EU itself knows that.

Bingo!

There is no 'bingo'

There is. You have qualified (there and elsewhere) that because few
(if any) know *ALL* the facts, few (if any) could actually decide the
best vote for *everyone*.

So, *everyone* is voting blind to some degree.

So everyone would be in your last group, and there
would be no point in having a referendum at all.

There was no last group ... but yes, because unlike many other things
in life we have to make decisions on, few (if any) have sufficient
fact to vote the best way for the bigger picture of everyone.

Now that you have blown both feet off
completely, you are free to fall over now.

Ooops. Better take those barrels out of your mouth eh. ;-)

Cheers, T i m