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election sa 2006

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 05:40pm on 19/03/2006 under , ,

i was a polling official for a polling booth in the election yesterday.

having to ask "have you voted before in this election" of every person who approached me from 08:00 to 18:00 was bad enough. having every single one of them look at you as if you were mad became very old, very fast.

most of you seem able to follow the instructions on the ballot papers just fine. a few really need help. not with the instructions so much as with a padded room. with a food slot.

mind you, after counting a fair chunk of ballot papers, i probably could do with a little time out myself.

Mood:: 'recumbent' recumbent
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 07:34am on 20/03/2006
we had a few f's in our boxes.

and a few "you'll never get us to work on holidays".


we had to confiscate a bundle of such how to vote papers because they were essentially black versions of the leg council ballot. xenophon knows better. he's a lawyer for f's sake ... *sigh*
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posted by [identity profile] 1badseed.livejournal.com at 04:52am on 20/03/2006
I also work as a polling official and have done for about 12 years. Last election I swore I would never do it again as we didn’t finish till after 10 and it was so busy all day that we hardly got a loo break. This year wasn’t so bad as we got done around 8pm. I was working as the ballot box guard this time.... mind numbingly boring. The way I kept my self amused was comparing the voters out at the Elizabeth East booth I was working at to the characters from Little Britain. Lots of Vicky Pollards, Mrs Emery, Lou and Andys and even a few Ting Tong’s with ugly older husbands in tow.
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bundles of 50! bundles of 50!

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 07:30am on 20/03/2006
this was my first time as a polling official. (the money was too good to pass up)

we double counted everything, and accounted for every single ballot issued. all 1878 of them. we were out by 9:30 pm.

we rotated roles, ballot box guard being the fav for brain breaks :)

i warned everyone that i'd see the patterns as i sorted the ballots, but it wasn't until my estimates for the lc matched even more closely than for the ha that my colleagues asked how i do it. just a quirk of my addled brain, i suspect.

in our booth:

ha: labor 3: liberal 1 + (minors 0.5)
lc: labor 4: xenephon 2: liberal 1 (+ minors 0.5)

the dems got hammered. family first did better than the dems by 2:1. the greens got about half as many again as the dems.

we had about a quater as many absentee/declaration votes as ordinary votes. the poor dec vote pair were flat out. heaps of people from across the road came over - to absentee vote for hartley ... (as i had too myself :)

i dreamed numbers and "have you voted before in this election?" ... arrgh!

one of my colleagues is breastfeeding a newborn (only a few weeks old), just ot add interest to our day. her hubby dropping by every few hours ...
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