Summary
Allan Faulds of Ballot Box Scotland joins the team to chat all things local elections. A week before Scotland heads to the polls in the local council elections, the team take a look at the nitty-gritty of the electoral process. What are the main issues driving people to the voting booth, and will turnout be higher or lower than previous years? How are votes calculated, why is it so complicated, and why does it matter that candidates are in alphabetical order?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.9 | Hi, you're listening to |
| 0:13.9 | Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.8 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of |
| 0:18.8 | Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It's nine minutes past two |
| 0:22.2 | on Thursday the 28th April. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm joined by |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Phil Simmer, a reporter based at the Scottish Parliament. And I'm Lindsay Bues, |
| 0:32.6 | a journalist also based at the Scottish Parliament. And you're both actually based, |
| 0:36.9 | based at the Scottish Parliament today, aren't both actually based, based at the Scottish Parliament |
| 0:38.0 | today, aren't you? Yes, we're not lying. We are here. We're in, we're back in our tiny |
| 0:43.1 | little cupboard-sized radio studio, just me and Phil together, happily podcasting way. |
| 0:49.1 | Oh man, I've got, I've got FOMO for not being there because I'm all together, yeah. |
| 0:53.5 | Last time you were here, Lucy, I think we had about six people in here, including the presiding officer. |
| 0:57.6 | So, it was really different days. |
| 0:59.0 | That was definitely pre-pandemic times. |
| 1:01.3 | But yeah, I'm not. |
| 1:01.9 | I've not got too much FOMO because we've got someone else who's joining us on the line remotely, but also from Glasgow. |
| 1:08.3 | And that is Alan Faults, better known as the man behind ballot box Scotland that's a |
| 1:12.5 | website about polling and elections in Scotland if you didn't know that already hi Alan |
| 1:16.9 | hi thanks for having me fortunately I'm not in a cupboard cupboards are like underrated recording |
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