It's election day in Australia, and when I went to vote this morning I was virtually assaulted by peole handing out how-to-vote cards. Do other countries have these?
Outside the polling booth, people from all parties stand around and thrust flyers at voters. These flyers tell you how they want you to vote. Sometimes they look almost like official documents from the electoral commission, sometimes they're in party colours and have party logos, usually they're somewhere in between. They get very annoying and sometimes very aggressive (seems to be usually the ones supporting the incumbent).
Usually I just push my way past the card hander outerers without a word, but this time I said "no thanks, I brought my own". (having done my research last week, figured out exactly who I wanted to vote for, and written it down)
no funny stuff here, just a rant. The suck is on the part of the people handing out the cards, they're worse than shopping mall Amex salesmen.
Outside the polling booth, people from all parties stand around and thrust flyers at voters. These flyers tell you how they want you to vote. Sometimes they look almost like official documents from the electoral commission, sometimes they're in party colours and have party logos, usually they're somewhere in between. They get very annoying and sometimes very aggressive (seems to be usually the ones supporting the incumbent).
Usually I just push my way past the card hander outerers without a word, but this time I said "no thanks, I brought my own". (having done my research last week, figured out exactly who I wanted to vote for, and written it down)
no funny stuff here, just a rant. The suck is on the part of the people handing out the cards, they're worse than shopping mall Amex salesmen.
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