Best ballot paper

[ewx]

Best ballot paper, as described by one of Cambridge's independent candidates:

Counting took a long time partly because the spoilt ballot papers of each ward were examined painstakingly ward by ward - I did get the best paper though - entries of unhappy faces in each box except mine which had a smiley face, universally judged to be the best paper :o)

Comments

[ali-in-london.livejournal.com]

Ahh, when I read the article the first time around I thought that the smiley ballot paper was being grouped in the set of spoiled ballot papers, and so the "best paper" meant the best out of the painstakingly examined spoiled ballot papers, rather than the best out of all the papers.