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Beating the campaign trail is pretty hard stuff. Just handing out 'how to vote' sheets won't cut it. You have to know what you and your party stand for. There was one guy who stood around for ten minutes asking and pondering the state of halal meat at the campus food outlets but then walked away without even voting. There are two doors to the voting place, you ask people to vote when they walk in one door and they sneak around the other. To stand a man at both entries would be total smothering. People either tell you that they've voted which is good in that you don't have to hand them a sheet or they take one and dump it in the bin a few seconds later on.
One of our policies is to increase the recycling across the whole place.
I like looking at the faces of people who try and squirm their way out of the entire mess, for some reason they think that democracy is best handled by other people.
Time was on my side when I rocked up to some public school I've only ever been to on polling days and back when I was trying to learn some Cantonese or Mandarin. At first I was stuck behind a group of people who looked more lost than anyone could ever on a weekend that mightn't be wasted. Then this girl pointed me over to a table with some guy who took forever to do nothing which made me jump the next table over. At first from the blurred images that were included on the flyers at the gate I thought the white Senate paper would be pretty easy to deal with. At one hundred and twenty centimetres I nearly took my own eye out as the draft of moving it about nearly picked it up and swooped it across my face. All the way from one to sixty-five I didn't like the choices on offer. Voting for people based soley on their name is hard enough without having to readjust the ballot paper time and time again as you zig zag from one side to the other. Twenty four groups of people without even any photos to show who they were. That would have made the voting process a whole lot easier. You could vote on the looks of the faces compared to the what the names of candidates looked liked when you squinted and blinked very fast.
Disappointing to see only Unity and Labor 'how to vote' sheets at the front of the gate. At least I did grab a few and now the envelope looks quite buffed. A few weeks prior to the debacle that was Saturday a letter that was explicitly stated as having not costed the Taxpayer a single cent was filled with junk plastered with the face of John Howard. It was a postal vote form. In true spite I packed that baby with all the crap I got on voting day and it sits waiting to be posted.
Wednesday, 14 November 2001 - 03:49
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