Surely...
...it's dodgier if they ARE wearing rosettes and only collecting one party's voters? That would certainly bugger up the whole secret ballot thing in a big way.
My understanding is that in many constituencies the parties actually used to swap this data with each other, so they all know what the real turnout looks like. But that may no longer be the case.
I think that particular lady, however, saw herself as some kind of Tory MI5 agent, and got a kick out of it. Sadly political parties can only get volunteers to do tedious things like this by appealing to manic fanatics.
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prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Thu 6 May 2010, 15:49,
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