Today is election day in Australia. Being jet lagged and arriving the day before the election, I haven't managed to grasp too much, but what I have figured out is just strange, beginning with the fact that I was dragged to a middle school on a Saturday morning because someone thought it would be a good idea to vote on the weekends, and because it's illegal to skip out on your civic obligation. As you can see below, this leads to some creative voting. Any uninformed citizen who wanders in with the sole purpose of avoiding the $50 fine for not voting has his work cut out, since Australians don't just vote for one candidate, they rank each and every candidate on the ballot. Not exactly sure how this translates into votes, but on the senate ballot there were sixty (yes, 60) candidates, all waiting to be ranked. No small feat.
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| The Senate Ballot |
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| Creative Voting |
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