Postal voting around christmas time, as the pension vote was, was a disaster, in my opinion as the higher workload and pressure on royal mail capacity meant that, inevitibly, mail got lost - I'm still waiting for my xmas card from my aunt which contained a £50 note, sent in december 2008!
Was that vote monititored by individual scrutineers? whilst we don't live in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, I have no faith in management to play fair and the union to be able to keep an eye on them (insert conspiracy theory here).
I think it should be a sealed box vote done at units, collated and counted by an independand agency at a central location.
Hell if I'm being paranoid then so be it - and for those management suck-asses who will no doubt poo-poo my suggestion, what's the harm in mitigating a potential bone of contention?