Comments on: Down the Pole

By: Zoe

Zoe — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:36:36 +0000

I thought everyone voted too, until I came to work on the day of this last election. I postal voted, so I avoided the gauntlet. But it seems several people at work avoided it by simply ‘forgetting’. I overheard a man in the coffee shop saying that he avoided it by never having been on the electoral role in the first place. I don’t understand why people wouldn’t want to vote.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:41:44 +0000

Kevin – I dare say some of these people had been drunk since 1974.

Rebecca – How do you explain Big L Liberal versus little l liberal, then?

Ashlee – I wondered the same thing. I mean, it’s really not a complicated process. It’s all pretty well explained on the sheet, and there were instructions everywhere!

By: Ashlee

Ashlee — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:42:16 +0000

Cheers for the link… the old people were by far the hardest to deal with on the day. You would think they would understand how the system works, surely they have voted quite a few times before… like sure, maybe I could understand the 18 year olds being confused, but middle aged and older people who were completely baffled by the experience of voting were the ones that confused me the most!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:25:15 +0000

It’s Lab O r Tyson. You silly, silly boy.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:58:23 +0000

The perfect plan on election day:

1: have no idea who you are going to vote for until you arrive at the polling station;

2: enter the school via the back gate to avoid being given any information on who is actually pleading for your vote;

3: skulk away after it all and have an argument with your friend who owns a small business and thinks that the Workchoices legislation is a great idea;

4: drink heavily – this can be done at any stage during the day. The earlier, the better:

5: vote early and vote often.

Here endeth the lesson.