lol, compulsory voting sucks.

Yep, compulsory voting here.

But the ACT has no such thing as "Lord Mayor". So I don't need to vote for that.

Senseito Sakura Wrote:double you tee eff @ COMPULSORY VOTING

Why should they bother.... really.

What happens if you don't vote anyway? Jail? Fine?

Fine.

When you go to vote, they cross your name off in a massive list.

Assassinator Wrote:Yep, compulsory voting here.

But the ACT has no such thing as "Lord Mayor". So I don't need to vote for that.

Senseito Sakura Wrote:double you tee eff @ COMPULSORY VOTING

Why should they bother.... really.

What happens if you don't vote anyway? Jail? Fine?

Fine.

When you go to vote, they cross your name off in a massive list.

A List? Really?

hibbyware Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:When you go to vote, they cross your name off in a massive list.

I feel sorry for the person who has to cross off all the names,

I mean how exciting can that be,

Lol.
Generally, you're allocated a place where you have to go to vote (it's the closest centre to where you live).
And there's usually about 5 people there, so ya...

And you can do what I basically did - make a junk vote ("donkey vote").

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funnyman Wrote:lol i agree, and it'd probly take a while to go through the 15 mil or so names to find the right one

Each town city has it's own list of only who's in there I think. (Only my assumption. Maybe I'm wrong.)

So there wouldn't be that many manes, except for big cities like Sydney and such.

It's also sorted alphabetically.

... ...

On the other hand, inputting the data of who has and who hasn't into the computer is even worse.

(This post was last modified: 19/03/2008 04:31 PM by Assassinator.)

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:... 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?

interesting...

so what happens if you don't vote?

*®$нд∂¥©* Wrote:so what happens if you don't vote?

You get fined.

Assassinator Wrote:

*®$нд∂¥©* Wrote:so what happens if you don't vote?

You get fined.

O.O

how much?