There was a talkback session on the radio yesterday and people were talking about their experiences of elections in other countries. A Canadian women rang up to say they had a local election in their town in the middle of winter and there were only two candidates. It was cold and snowing and the queue to vote was very long. After standing in the snow for about 20 minutes, one person shouted “I’m voting for Smith”. Another person called out “I’m voting for Brown”. Since their votes cancelled each other out they both left the queue and went home. Everyone else soon caught on to this and within 5 minutes the queue had disappeared.
(Don’t try this in Australia, you’ll get fined for not voting)
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