How to vote cards...

[TroyGFC]

Yesterday I was handing out how to vote cards for Labor, my question is does anyone take notice of them? do they influence your vote? do you try and bypass people handing them out?

For me I have already made my mind up weeks/days prior to election on who i am voting for and against and the middle few just get the 4-6 marked next to them. I think its a big waste of paper and ink, even though while I was handing out Labor's I kept telling people who told me its a waste of paper that Labor's has a blank back page so they can use as a shopping list or kids to draw on. I normally try and sneak pass them all!!

[rogernumber10]

Happy to be polite and chat to the people from either side but never ever collected them at any election. Always vote 1 to whatever in the lower house after having a long think about it in the last day or two and vote 1 to whatever in the upper house after a similar think. Wife gets very very very sad when she votes in 4 mins and it takes me 35 minutes to fill out a Vic senate paper (65 candidates yesterday and spent a long time working out which of the god-botherers had to be at 65). We voted separately yesterday as a result.

[Thiele]

Pick them up gives me something to read before i vote and the chuck them out after i have voted i

[bayman]

no i dont collect them from anyone, i have enough rubbish going into the bin as it is & i will not be told how or what to vote for from anyside, it is a form of brainwashing & this year i voted for groucho marx & i know mal voted for darren lehmann & i'd doubt if rodney marsh got a vote

[Pseudo]

Next year I'm going to hand out "how to vote informal" cards, with instructions for sketching oversized genitalia on the ballots.

[TroyGFC]

Next year I'm going to hand out "how to vote informal" cards, with instructions for sketching oversized genitalia on the ballots.

can i help!!

[redandblack]

Happy to be polite and chat to the people from either side but never ever collected them at any election. Always vote 1 to whatever in the lower house after having a long think about it in the last day or two and vote 1 to whatever in the upper house after a similar think. Wife gets very very very sad when she votes in 4 mins and it takes me 35 minutes to fill out a Vic senate paper (65 candidates yesterday and spent a long time working out which of the god-botherers had to be at 65). We voted separately yesterday as a result.

I'm with you, roger, but fortunately SA only had about 46.

It gets a bit upsetting when you have to put some at 40 when there's a half-dozen you want at 46, even though you know it makes no difference

[rogernumber10]

Happy to be polite and chat to the people from either side but never ever collected them at any election. Always vote 1 to whatever in the lower house after having a long think about it in the last day or two and vote 1 to whatever in the upper house after a similar think. Wife gets very very very sad when she votes in 4 mins and it takes me 35 minutes to fill out a Vic senate paper (65 candidates yesterday and spent a long time working out which of the god-botherers had to be at 65). We voted separately yesterday as a result.

I'm with you, roger, but fortunately SA only had about 46.

It gets a bit upsetting when you have to put some at 40 when there's a half-dozen you want at 46, even though you know it makes no difference

I'm hoping it keeps the counters entertained, knowing that my vote has to keep moving separately to all the rest if the last spot is close. However, never seems close.

[stan]

Happy to be polite and chat to the people from either side but never ever collected them at any election. Always vote 1 to whatever in the lower house after having a long think about it in the last day or two and vote 1 to whatever in the upper house after a similar think. Wife gets very very very sad when she votes in 4 mins and it takes me 35 minutes to fill out a Vic senate paper (65 candidates yesterday and spent a long time working out which of the god-botherers had to be at 65). We voted separately yesterday as a result.

I'm with you, roger, but fortunately SA only had about 46.

It gets a bit upsetting when you have to put some at 40 when there's a half-dozen you want at 46, even though you know it makes no difference

I'm hoping it keeps the counters entertained, knowing that my vote has to keep moving separately to all the rest if the last spot is close. However, never seems close.

As someone who has worked on an election and done the count. All I can say is thanks for thinking of us
But seriously the ones that are most interesting are the informal votes. Some people really put some effort in, and if Bart Simpson was a real person probably would have won office a while back

[Plunge Penguin]

No, I just thank them politely and move through. Mrs PP chides me for this, but I don't see the point - my vote is already decided, and won't change as a result of being told how to preference - it doesn't follow the party line anyway, so I simply don't see the point.

Took longer at our booth through waiting for a pack of absentees that ended up in the wrong queue, but no harm done! Good on the electoral staff, wouldn't be fun saying the same thing all day.."Have you voted today? Good, then just down to one of the three middle desks, on the right". Mrs PP whispered "Crucifixion? Good, just down to the right, Christians on the left..." just as they asked where I lived. The woman at the desk didn't understand why my house seemed so amusing

[Hondo]

I make my own preferences I don't like to feel that I follow the party line for the entire voting slip

But I am too polite and take the sheets off each person .... and then don't look at them again before chucking them in the bin

[Mr66]

I try to bypass them by going in back entrances.

[Pseudo]

I try to bypass them by going in back entrances.

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