Overseas voters say Adobe software won’t let them tick some parties

Overseas voters filling in their ballots electronically say Adobe’s software won’t let them tick some parties with a click, prompting the Electoral Commission to urge voters to check their papers before uploading. A social media user raised the problem this week, posting a screenshot of their overseas voting paper opened in Adobe Reader. Adobe’s “Fill & Sign” tool had detected some of the voting circles as editable fields, shown in blue, which the user could tick with a single click. Others, shown in white, could not be ticked the same way. They said they could get around it by stamping a tick on manually or printing the paper out, and acknowledged the fault was likely unintentional. “However, given that this is an official voting document, shouldn’t it be equally straightforward to mark a vote for every party?” they wrote. Other overseas voters reported different results on their own papers.