The Local Elections in Poland - Part 1

At the beginning I want to emphasize that I'm not a journalist and I'm a very young person, so the news I will be talking about could be described in an incoherent way and my opinion may be controversial.
So lets start. Two weeks ago the local elections in Poland took place. I think that to understand what happened this year I have to talk a while('a while' is not needed here) about the elections that took place four years ago. I wasn't interested in politics at that time so I don't know everything about these elections, but I've heard the probably most important fact about this event. Please take a look at this map.
http://wolnemedia.net/obrazki/mapka0.jpg
It shows the percentage of invalid voices votes because of two "X" symbols on the election card( you put it at next to the name of the candidate you're voting for). What do you see? There's a red stain in the middle of the map. In Poland we call this particular stain "Masovian Voivodeship" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masovian_Voivodeship). Are the inhabitants of the Masovian Voivodeship dumber than other Poles? Or how is it possible that the percentage of invalid voices votes in this viovodeship almost reached 30% when the average in Poland was under 15%?
Some people say that there's one way to reduce the amount of invalid voices votes -it shouldn't be allowed for the people from the election commissions to have pens. They say that these people could put the second "X" on the election card. I don't say am not saying that this really took place, but it's hard to explain how is it it is possible that the amount of invalid voices votes in the electoral districts neighboring with the Masovian Voivodship was as half as low as it what it was in this Voivodship.
Ok, I've almost finished describing the elections from 2010. There were some really weird statistics so I expected some "weird numbers" at the elections this year. "They" didn't disappoint me...
I hope that the meaning of this text was more or less understandable. As I said I'm a very young person so my opinion may be controversial.
To be continued...

Good work, sounds interesting.