Voted early the past two elections but I decided that for the first time ever, I’d do it on the day
With COVID in the house a couple of weeks back I put it off. It wasn’t until yesterday I remembered (I felt like we must surely still have a week to go). All the nearby voting places were closed by the time I could go so ended up waiting until today. Then I woke up feeling miserable, so ended up loading up on drugs, N95 mask, drenched in hand sanitiser and managed to make it out of bed and down the road to vote before returning for a nap.
Champion effort
Well done
Ka Pai!
Remember, until 7pm tonight it is a crime to attempt to influence the way a person votes
To be fair, who wants till election day to decide which set of politicians is the least worst.
How long was the wait ?
No wait at all at my place.
About 3 min, a couple of people in front of me
For me it wasn’t too bad. Maybe 5 people in front of me when I got there, with a couple of people to find names and hand out papers. Plus an extra person to handle special votes and on the day enrolments.
That’s pretty fantastic on the last day. Maybe there will be a rush towards 7
We used to have all votes on one day, and now we do half in advance and still seem to have the same number of polling places. I wouldn’t expect many to be super busy, except mall based ones.
I would have also thought the lead up to polls closing would be the quietest time? People who want to vote wouldn’t leave it so late that they risk not being able to vote.
You never know.
Will be real interesting to see once we get digital online voting. Those that just couldn’t be bothered or forgot might change the voting landscape
Digital online voting is just asking for trouble. The requirement to be present in person solves a lot of issues, I can’t think of a way that online voting could work without serious issues.
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I just can’t imagine a way to make it work that prevented people from selling their votes or being forced by others to vote a certain way. Requiring people to show up at a poll and having no way of knowing who someone voted for is a huge part of what makes elections fair.
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Oh I think you’ll see an increase. It’s not hard. But it’s not hard to go for a walk yet people struggle. Remove obstacles and you’ll get better penetration.
It’s 2023. We can vote online. We don’t need paper votes