Allow me to introduce myself. I'm one of the people who will be counting votes on election day. I'm also likely to be greeting Australian electors, marking their names off the roll, making sure that scrutineers don't interfere and so on.
It is your right to vote informal if you so choose. But please, for the love of all that is either holy or profane (whichever you prefer), please do NOT pocket your ballot and walk out with it, and especially don't replace it with a Chick tract.
At the end of the night, we have to account for every ballot paper that we can. In many countries, missing ballot papers may constitute evidence of election fraud. We get paid the same amount whether we leave at 10pm or 3am, and if there are too many ballot papers that we can't account for (say, 5 or more), then have to do a full recount then and there.
Deface it, write a slogan on it, just leave it blank... if that's what you really want to do with your vote, on your head be it. But please, just put it in the damn box.
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Date: 2010-06-28 07:59 (UTC)It is your right to vote informal if you so choose. But please, for the love of all that is either holy or profane (whichever you prefer), please do NOT pocket your ballot and walk out with it, and especially don't replace it with a Chick tract.
At the end of the night, we have to account for every ballot paper that we can. In many countries, missing ballot papers may constitute evidence of election fraud. We get paid the same amount whether we leave at 10pm or 3am, and if there are too many ballot papers that we can't account for (say, 5 or more), then have to do a full recount then and there.
Deface it, write a slogan on it, just leave it blank... if that's what you really want to do with your vote, on your head be it. But please, just put it in the damn box.
Besides, the Chick tract won't be read.