It’s been a long time between blog posts around here hasn’t it? I know what you’ve been thinking – “If his opinions are so important, why doesn’t he express them?” Patience, dear reader.
I break my silence today to bring you a sordid tale of ELECTION SKULLDUGGERY!
Well, maybe not.
It being the day of the Federal Election here in Australia, I just got back from voting.
I like the way we do elections. For starters, they are so low-tech. None of these fancy-schmancy electronic voting machines or hole-punching systems – in Australia, all we need is pencils, paper and cardboard – because, you understand, everything at the polling place, including the voting booths, are made of cardboard.
But we also have a confusing preferential voting system (explained here), and that brings me to the scandal I must reveal today. Each political party has their own how-to-vote cards (such as the one pictured above) to best exploit the preferential system, that are distributed to voters as they walk through the entrance of the polling place.
Normally when entering a polling place, I take every how to vote card offered to me, and then don’t use any of them.
But not today! I was approached before I reached the entrance by a Labor Party volunteer, who gave me a how-to-vote card, and then directed me to the voting booths by a different route, so I would not receive the how-to-vote cards of the other parties!
Sneaky.
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Melbourne Coffee Review man Peter Christo was trying to enjoy his favourite cafe in peace, but there’s an election on, and one of the political parties apparently has its own professional choir and conductor (RSS readers click here to view):
Better than the usual election campaign methods, if you ask me.
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