You misread my motive. I'm out because I get very tired of reading threads which descend into bickering between two people, and I have no desire to be a guilty(-ier) party. I'm more than happy to continue the debate privately if you're so inclined though.
If you're going to quote an article - at least read it. All of it. From the Torygraph piece:
"However Gavin Millar QC from London’s Matrix Chambers said: "Twitter is a publisher, so it’s publication by whoever does it.
“I think it’s probably not contrary to Section 66A.
“Section 66A has to...
Try again Trig.
"It is an offence....to publish [ie be NSC], before a poll is closed, any statement about the way in which voters [Hillian] have voted in that election, where this statement is..... based on information given by voters [Hillian] after they have voted".
The law is clear - NSC...
Well then, the commission (which commission??) has a different understanding of the law than the legislation would appear to have:
The Representation of the People Act 2002 inserted a section 66A into the initial 1983 of the same name and this read as follows. It is a criminal offence ‘to...