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The reason I ask is that during today's visit to the Scottish Executive rural affairs department, I talked to an official about one of the SPICe papers.
In a way, it is—yes and no. It is complicated for the officials who have to count the preferences, which is why it is helpful to have e-counting; but for the voter it is as simple as 1, 2, 3.
For example, I asked the minister why"if rod-licence charges are not a good idea on any other river in Scotland, they are a good idea on the Esk?"—Official Report, 10 February 2005; c 14521.