Postal Vote Farce

Forward to my post in May entitled Winter Of Discontent, I must add that I didn’t get to vote after all. Firstly I had applied for a postal vote so I wouldn’t have to leave the house and listen to the bullshit from the spruikers at the polling booths. Then I thought no, bugger it, I’ll turn up and have a bit of fun and give them some crap of my own. But, as it happened, I got shit off with the whole voting scenario and changed my mind again. I decided to post in my vote.

But wait, there’s another twist to this tale. Apparently my wife had told me the day before that only her voting papers had arrived in the mail and not mine, something that I’d completely forgotten. Oh dear, what a turnup. But wait again, this provided me with a cunning thought. It actually gave me with an ‘out’. Now I didn’t have to bother about voting at all. It wasn’t my fault that my application was lost in the mail. There is a God.

Well, the results are in on that in the shape of a ‘please explain’ from the Australian Electoral Office with the title, Penalty Notice Apparent Failure To Vote. So, they aren’t sure whether I voted or not? And they’ve only given me three lines across an A4 sheet of paper to supply an excuse, or be fined $20. That limits me to only explain about the postal stuff up and not lecture them about how many dead people and people who have moved interstate or out of the country who are still on the roll and still voting. Jesus wept!