(no subject)
Dec. 4th, 2002 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccWell the election turned out to be something of a walkover. Not really surprising any one though, most of the polls had been predicting it for weeks. And the Liberal's somewhat pathetic campaign didn't help... it's nice to not have to keep the remote next to you to avoid political advertising for a couple of years. :-)
I voted where I always vote, which is the former state and now private Primary school up the road (Jeff sold it). Normally this is a really busy polling station given that it's on the tram line, the bus line and it's within easy walking distance for the rest of us. When I went there though, at 10am what's more, it was dead quiet. I was outnumbered by people handing out leaflets. I was in and out in under 5 minutes! Surreal.
I think what happened is that when they redrew the electoral boundaries earlier this year the primary school ended up right on the edge of one of the boundaries. As a result people who formerly voted there went elsewhere because they couldn't work out which electorate it was in. I didn't think about that, I just rocked up and somewhat fortunately turned out to be on the same side of the street (and hence the same electorate) as the school. Not that it would have mattered that much though, I would have just absentee voted there anyway. It was also cold and occasionally raining in the morning, so that might have meant that some voters were hoping it would clear up before they went out to vote.
After I voted we went up to where Dean is enrolled (no, he hasn't changed it) and he voted. They had a sausage sizzle fundraiser going outside the polling place (the local high school) which was raking it in. Dean's was a bit busier, as a lot of people were combining shopping and sport with voting. Even so he was in and out in about 10 mins, pushing past the netball girls who were playing in the gym next door.
In the evening we watched maybe 10 mins of election coverage. Part of this was because Dean hates election coverage or politics of any description (we were in San Francisco during the 2000 elections staying at a friend's place. 3 of us were glued to the TV with the computer on getting live updates on the numbers. Dean was sitting in the corner reading magazines and going "this is boring! Can we go now?") and part was because it was such a rout and there were very few marginal seats and yeah, it did get a bit samey after a while... red bar goes up, blue bar goes down, swing goes to Labour.
Another election over. Probably 2 years till the next! Yay!!!!!!!
</lj-cut
I voted where I always vote, which is the former state and now private Primary school up the road (Jeff sold it). Normally this is a really busy polling station given that it's on the tram line, the bus line and it's within easy walking distance for the rest of us. When I went there though, at 10am what's more, it was dead quiet. I was outnumbered by people handing out leaflets. I was in and out in under 5 minutes! Surreal.
I think what happened is that when they redrew the electoral boundaries earlier this year the primary school ended up right on the edge of one of the boundaries. As a result people who formerly voted there went elsewhere because they couldn't work out which electorate it was in. I didn't think about that, I just rocked up and somewhat fortunately turned out to be on the same side of the street (and hence the same electorate) as the school. Not that it would have mattered that much though, I would have just absentee voted there anyway. It was also cold and occasionally raining in the morning, so that might have meant that some voters were hoping it would clear up before they went out to vote.
After I voted we went up to where Dean is enrolled (no, he hasn't changed it) and he voted. They had a sausage sizzle fundraiser going outside the polling place (the local high school) which was raking it in. Dean's was a bit busier, as a lot of people were combining shopping and sport with voting. Even so he was in and out in about 10 mins, pushing past the netball girls who were playing in the gym next door.
In the evening we watched maybe 10 mins of election coverage. Part of this was because Dean hates election coverage or politics of any description (we were in San Francisco during the 2000 elections staying at a friend's place. 3 of us were glued to the TV with the computer on getting live updates on the numbers. Dean was sitting in the corner reading magazines and going "this is boring! Can we go now?") and part was because it was such a rout and there were very few marginal seats and yeah, it did get a bit samey after a while... red bar goes up, blue bar goes down, swing goes to Labour.
Another election over. Probably 2 years till the next! Yay!!!!!!!
</lj-cut
