[GreenLanternCorps]

Actually, it those that count the vote decide who wins, and the UK government is doing the counting.

Actually, the local Returning Officer manually counts the ballots in a large room for each constituency.

[Winniesboy]

One of the many reasons why electoral fraud is very difficult to do in the UK. There hasn’t been any significant fraud for very many years now, although there have been relatively minor personation issues in recent years with the growth in postal voting.

[Hulka]

Is he representative of the government or totally independent, meaning no political involvement in choosing the guy. . .monitoring the ballots.