Sorry for the bump, but I found this while searching for something unrelated, and it got me reading...
- Opaque voting urns that were full of "votes" already (there's even a video of a guy dropping an urn while running into the polling place and it was already full of papers)
- There was no census so anyone could vote, I mean some people voted through the internet using the name "Michael Jackson" "Mickey Mouse" or "Donald Trump" and it counted as a valid vote (I really wish I was kidding but sadly its the truth).
- As there was no census there was no actual number of people pending to vote, so there was people who voted 4 or 5 times and it counted (believe me, its not a joke) As a result the 100,88% of the catalan population registered a vote last Sunday.
- If you think thats crazy enough this one is good, people couldn't vote "No" , when you were in the polling place there were no electoral ballots to vote against the independence, if you said you wanted to vote against it they would ask you to leave.
What you state as facts in your previous posts is not true.
1) The ballot to vote Yes and No was the same one. You get one paper, you scratch either yes or no and put it inside the box. I counted votes myself and we had a lot of noes.
This is the ballot used to vote:
https://goo.gl/kCVQsp You can see in Spanish, Catalan and Occitan (a lanauge spoken in Catalonia and southern France) that you can vote yes and no using that paper.
2) You could not vote online. There was no such thing. An online server was used to check that a person had not voted already. Basically: if you show up to vote, we input your national ID number into the system, and then the system would say whether you had voted already or not. You did not input any name, only a national ID number. Yes, Spain disrupted the beahviour of the online website for a while, and during that time we paralized the voting just in case.
3) We are talking
2,044,038 leave votes here during the 1-O referendum. Then, during the snap elections of 21 of December, there were
2,079,340 leave votes. Whichever video you've watched of a person successfully voting twice due to the servers being down in a specific area of Catalonia, is not significant.
Unless you believe the 21D elections were also rigged, and the votes again do not reflect the actual number of pro-independence supporters.
4) It hurts me that someone from Spain believed all of this enough to spread it, and I am truly concerned about how you interpret everything that the media speaks about in Spain.
I am not defending Catalonia's independence, I just want you to know some facts about the referendum. Because you might've been misled by the media (made obvious by your claim that you could vote online and you could not vote "no" at the stations).
5) I get a similar feeling when people from Spain criticize Catalans' "violence" against the police corps during September 2017 when people blocked the entrance of a building and vandalized two cars. People are putting these events on the same level as the police beating down hundreds of pacifist citizens who just wanted to vote (some wanted to vote yes and some wanted to vote no, and some wanted to vote blank).
6) Also, referring to another post of yours: the tri-partit has nothing to do here. The tri-partit was composed of ERC (pro-leave), PSC (pro-stay) and ICV (assumed pro-stay unless they clearly define themselves as pro-leave). You're mixing things up.
7) In Catalonia, you can usually take exams in both languages: Catalan and Spanish. What you say is not true. All
university entrance exams and university exams are available in both Catalan and Spanish (university exams also in English). In primary and secondary schools, it depends on the local community. If you do not speak Catalan and take tests in a Catalan school, professors will prepare a Spanish exam for you or help you out during the test translating every sentence. I have seen this tens of times in my classrooms.
Now please excuse my old bump again.