Voting in Australia...
8:53am: leave home for polling station 🚗
8:55am: arrive at polling station ☑️
8:57am: comment to stranger behind you that this is longest line ever 🕘
8:59am: ponder getting a pre-vote democracy sausage 🌭
9:26am: got my forms
9:28am: voted 🗳️
9:30am democracy sausage obtained 🌭
9:33am: home 🏡
#DemocracySausage #Hepburn #HeoburnPrimarySchool #VicVotes #VictoriaVotes #election #Election2022 #Vote
every democratic system in the west has its limits, but by gum we have it good in Australia when it comes to voting;
an independent electoral commission; no out of control gerrymanders;
audited management of ballot papers;
access to polling at reasonable hours, in reasonable locations, and with reasonable alternatives;
get to laugh with people representing a variety of parties, with no fear of being shot
@maudenificent @artywah @kcarruthers the only downside with election participation in Australia is that not all polling stations feature democracy sausage/cake/etc.
Also, love taking HTV cards of parties I don’t like without prejudice or fear, so I can confidently reverse preference ‘below the line’.
#VictoriaVotes #VictorianElection2022
@ki_sekiya @maudenificent @kcarruthers
I had added the local primary school to the sausage map while I was there
@ki_sekiya @artywah @kcarruthers
No goodies at the hall in Hastings this morning, but I didn’t mind cos i hadn’t even had mu cup of coffee, yet.
And … confident it wouldn’t take so long to vote that i would sufffffer waiting for coffee 😉
A nun at school (1960s) told us she always took the HTV so no one could guess how she was voting - she would have loved seeing the DLP on the job today 😆
artywah
Maude Nificent
Ken S