What he actually said, in context...
https://democracyvolunteers.org/2019...tion-06-06-19/
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Overall, the observer team was extremely impressed with the organisation and administration of polling stations throughout the day by polling staff, particularly given this is the third election to be held in a short-time frame in Peterborough. Polling station staff seemed well prepared to deliver the election, from greeting voters and administering ballot papers to ensuring the secrecy of the ballot. Staff were very welcoming to the observer team and regularly recorded their attendance at their stations.
An ongoing concern of Democracy Volunteers is the observed level of so-called ‘family voting’, whereby individuals lose their right to cast their vote in secret. In today’s election, ‘family voting’ was observed in 50% of all polling stations. Despite the high prevalence of family voting, the extent to which this was challenged by polling station staff was highly commendable, regular and sometimes even persistent. It was clear that staff had received training about the negative impact of family voting and how to intervene when necessary. The returning officer had also clearly coordinated with the local police to ensure that some polling stations were also permanently or regularly attended to encourage the correct voting procedures which were often challenged by voters, who were often unaware that this is an ‘unacceptable practice’ (OSCE/ODIHR).
However, Democracy Volunteers has also identified an emerging concern in the frequency in which individuals were observed to be photographing their completed ballot papers, which in each case went either unnoticed or unchallenged by staff. Whilst the observer team did not see this in every station it was clear that photographing a ballot, presumably for transmission, was a normalised activity, even though polling stations clearly displayed signs stating that photography is forbidden in polling stations. This photography did not take the form of so-called ‘selfies’ but of simply a ballot being photographed by the voter.
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Any concerns should be investigated, and if criminal acts occurred, prosecution should happen.