Any chances for any UKIP seats?

Conservatives got one of there target seats in Bristol.

Lib Dems hold Torbay

I just dont see why you think it will be a shock if green or BNP got a seat, as mentioned earlier green got one, and bnp will too

lol...

Everyone applauds the Lib Dem guy but the Labour candidate.

why is the horrible woman saying results right now not telling us which party the names she's saying belong to!!

Because she is horrible darth. Really horrible.

Anyway, i also want that cool wall and floor this guy is on.

No chance.

They are very nice.

For the past 2 elections in the US, I've been an election worker that works exclusively with helping people on the touchscreen machines - I set them up, tear them down, count the ballots, and generally do the work of 5 people had we used paper. I can't say enough good about the ones we use. They are simple, fast (last election, I voted in 30 seconds for about 20 people/issues), don't require massive recounts unless absolutely needed, rarely run out of paper (when you make a selection, it copies it on a printer + saves it to 2 types of memory cards), and are pretty self-explanitory.

Great systems. Some of these problems may have been avoided with these kinds of systems. Paper ballots can be a huge mess. In Ohio, during our primary, people have to declare a party they want to vote for in the primary, and our state recognizes almost every party. If we used paper ballots, we would of needed about 20 different kinds of ballots last election. I kid you not. We had ballots for Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Socialists, Constitutional, Issues-Only, 17-Year-Old, provisional (disputed ballots that question if the person can legally vote). Multiply these choices by the number of school districts where I live (2), and you'd have an abysmal mess. In fact, the only issues we had during the last election (which was Tuesday of this week) were with people using the paper ballots - which took about 10x longer to prepare for usage than the electronic ballots did.

The requirements of preparing an electronic machine take about 5 seconds vs. up to a minute or more to find the right ballot for someone. God only knows what would of happened if there was a 17 year old that wanted to vote Socialist in the election...That would of possibly shut the entire election down, ha ha.

Where I live, this is what we use:

One person could set up & help about 10 voters in booths with these machines. I could easily process about 300 voters an hour on these by myself..If not more. Where I live, I was responsible for 5 of them simultaneously, and it was very easy.

@phinch

bnp,snp,ukip etc get more votes in eu/local elections as people make a point,but don't usually carry it through in general elections,

@ ffan don't worry yet theres along way to go

and some of the bbc toys aren't working lol