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From the BBC haveyoursay site on ballot spoiling...
" Peter Henley Political editor, South of England
tweets: Impressed by creativity of Thames Valley spoiled ballots - from "A plague on all your houses" to "Young men died in the trenches for this?""
" Victoria Jones in Manchester
emails: I am far from apathetic about this election, in fact I strongly oppose the whole concept, so I felt my only option was to spoil my ballot. I have never done this before but as the government has forced this unnecessary and unwanted change on us without a referendum it was the only way I could register my protest. "
"In North Yorkshire 6,402 people spoilt their ballot papers, with 3,995 spoiled in South Yorks. "
" Lizzy Nay in Durham
tweets: @bbc_haveyoursay Interesting the number of spoilt ballots- it says much more than those too lazy to go out to vote!"
"In West Mercia there have been 4,273 spoiled ballots."
"In Hampshire there were 5,595 spoilt ballots of 211,886 cast, the BBC politics reporter for South of England Peter Henley says. Of those, 1,904 had two marks in first column, 1,900 were blank, 1,733 uncertain, 51 wrote name."