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suffragette
Good god, I just voted. By email in Queensland, which is currently in the grip of a miniature narcissist who’s funding his own higher-than-POTUS salary increase with cuts to essential services. It took me 45 minutes on the phone yesterday to organise and an hour today to complete the forms and scan and mail them back and forth to Australia to be witnessed by someone who is an enrolled Australian voter. And before that I spent twenty minutes on the phone to a man at the Berlin Australian Embassy last week: he professed himself baffled that the closest physical voting booth in this election was in Singapore. “For some reason,” he said, “we just haven’t received any electoral materials this time round. And it all seems to be being conducted in rather a hurry.” I said, “But I voted in the federal election… in 2013. In your embassy.” “Yes,” he said. “Anyone would think they were wanting to make it difficult for people to lodge their votes.” But I have voted. Totally worth it. Democracy, I adore you and I believe in us.
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Yay for you Cathoel, to have the right to vote is a privilege…..and to make a huge effort to overcome all the obstacles to vote as you’ve done is extraordinary civic duty, and then some!
Thank you Cathoel – your effort is truly appreciated!!
“Power concedes nothing without a demand.” …keep demanding.
To be able to vote is a right, both constitutional and by international treaties such as the UN Human Rights Declaration. That some people in the world are denied the ability to vote makes it no less a right.
Yes Cathoel thank you for not forgetting us! And as Jon says, for embracing your civic duty so energetically. I know no thanks are necessary comrade, you stand by our side for love.