Error of Judgement at NSW State Elections

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The warm morning sun shines on the Bega Public School.

Did you ever make a mistake on election day? Well, I did. Here’s the story.

Last Saturday we had our state elections. In a bid to speed up the process of getting your name marked on the electoral roll, the electoral commission, for the first time, issued some paperwork to enrolled electors. It came in the post, a couple of weeks before the election.

I got a car park, not too far from the Bega Public School, which was our local polling place. Despite rain showers on and off all day, it was quite warm. I was wearing shorts with my tee shirt hanging out, fairly typical for me on an Autumn Saturday.

In order to keep the paperwork from getting wet in the light rain I stuffed it up my tee shirt, still holding it in my right hand.

The people giving out state election how to vote cards were arrayed along the school entrance pathway, with rain coats and umbrellas, doing their best to cope with the welcome rain as they supported their election candidate. So I took the various pamphlets in my left hand and proceeded.

In the door and heading toward the young woman at the table, to get my name marked off and be handed my ballot papers, I was struggling to get the paperwork out from under my tee shirt. Stopping in front of the table, I mumbled something about trying to get my thing out.

When I finally produced the paper, the young lady gave a giggle, saying she’d wondered what I was trying to pull out. The girl on the adjacent table laughed uproariously. You’d reckon that by early afternoon on polling day for the NSW state election, they’d have worked out what people meant by their thing.

Fortunately they took it with a good dose of humor, huh?

Ah well! I’ll be sure not to make that mistake again.

Error of Judgment at NSW State Elections on Wilderness Travel.