The irony of the Electoral Commission in Scotland looking to employ a Senior Electoral Practice and Performance Officer (salary £27,741), and a Senior (Political Parties Liaison) Officer (salary £27,741) as advertised in a number of Sunday newspapers, wasn't lost on Mr Smith.
The first post will involve helping "... to improve the performance of local electoral services in Scotland through providing high quality advice and supporting the roll-out of a new performance standards regime."
Perhaps if they had spent the £55,000 on both the posts before May's Scottish Parliament and local council elections, an estimated 180,000 votes wouldn't have been "wasted" and hundreds of thousands of Scots disenfranchised because of confusion about how the election was run. Talk about closing the stable gate after the horse has bolted .... and all at a cost of 30 pence a "lost" vote.
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