... is really something I couldn't care about ...

But anyway, had to go out to vote for Brisbane's lord mayor and local councilor yesterday.  It's really great since I knew basically none of the names on the ballot paper...
(By the way, for those who don't know, voting is compulsory in Australia)


So when walking to the polling centre, you see tonnes of posters around the place, advertising the parties' candidates (hmm, is it a crime to take down those things though?).  When you get to the entrance, there's all these people from each party, trying to shove in their "how to vote" pamphlets.  The pamphlets look really similar though - I mean, I would've thought that if they were trying to sway some last minute deciders, they'd try something more spectacular at least (don't they want to stand out?).

Well, for the actual voting, all I did was fill in random numbers in each box - pretty much what I did for the federal election.  Oh and with the fedral election here, held at the end of last year, I recall the senate voting paper - there were two ways to vote for the senate - either pick one, of fill in your preferences for the candidates from 1-65... ya, that's... 65...

Isn't compulsory voting just wonderful?