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Saturday, August 21st, 2010 12:26 pm
Australia: the only democracy where you get a snag (sausage/hot-dog) and a lamington (chocolate sponge cake) at the polling booth.

Okay, not really, but most polling places are public primary schools, which the government of both stripes generally scants when it comes to financing. (The plebs don't need to be prop'ly educated, after all! They're there to become good little workers, unthinking and obedient!) So the local schools tend to run sausage sizzles and bake sales when it's polling day.

The Twitter tag #ausvotes is moving pretty fast right now. Trending, even!

I haven't gone to vote yet - not until about 5pm, when the volunteers have wearied and I can simply wave them off as they try to push the voting plans into my hands.

Not that it makes too much difference here in my electorate: politically, it swings Liberal (conservative) every year. We haven't been offered so much as an electoral mung bean, let alone a whole carrot, for the last fifty years!
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