Polling Station

Today I worked at my local polling station for the ACT assembly election, a 13+ hour non-stop work day was a bit long, but interesting none the less. The political process is almost always fascinating from whichever vantage point you take.

The points of interest were the range of people you would never normally see, and the number of people with the barest of social skills. None of which was particularly funny and really the only humour comes once you open up the ballot box and examine the spoilt votes. My favouries were:

A paper in which all the boxes were filled with smiley faces
2x paper in which all the boxes were filled with 'no'
A paper covered with engorged penis' (penii?)
and best of all one left blank but with the addition of

Oh and the result (it is not yet finalised) well I don't want to appear biased but it looks like the battery farming kangaroo slaughterers are in the majority, though the Greens may have the balance of power.