How not to run an election

Whiting Bay Hall was as usual a Polling Place for the European elections last week. But forgetting to bring the Poll Card caused the presiding people no end of trouble, because (you won’t believe this) the names and addresses were in completely random order. This, apparently, is because Arran doesn’t have streets, so it doesn’t fall into the approved scheme of things. But would it really be so difficult to put the names of voters in alphabetical order? Computers have been around for a long time now, and they are quite good at that sort of thing.