I went to the voting booth today, down at the Reykjavik City Hall. Lots of people and lots of booths and signs and stuff that told me where to go, whom to talk to, where to stand in line and what to do.
So after finally figuring out in which line to stand I got a nifty slip of paper with all the parties (7 today) listed and the list of people I’m about to vote in depending on what party I choose. I take my piece of paper and walk into the booth, put an X at the right place, cross out a guy I don’t like, put a 1 for a gal I do like, walk out and put it in the voting box.
Presto, finito! Took like 20 minutes from finding a parking lot to leaving.
In this country, if you cross out a guy you don’t like on the ballot, in a close election, there will be battallions of lawyers for both parties arguing your ‘intent’ in front of a judge six months after the election. I hope your folk are a bit more mellow about stuff like that.
Nope. Over here each party has a list of persons you get to vote for and they’re set up in a numbered order. Hence the first person gets in first and so on.
But if you don’t like a particular person, you can cross over their name and/or change the numbering to your liking.
I’m watching the election wake at the moment, at home (since I’m to tired to party tonight) and it seems like Iceland for the first time ever will have a majority of left wing parties (the Social Democrats and the Left/Greens).
In addition, the right wing Independence Party (the collossus of Icelandic politics) are having their worst election ever. They’re taking all the blame for the financial crisis, which was kinda expected.
The SD and the LG are currently ruling together, but since the SD is the only party that seems to be getting more than 30% nobody is quite sure how the next gubment is going to look.
Maybe I can tempt you with the fact that we have no less than 3 volcanos that can go off at any time
As for the election - no changes and it’s getting damn late here.
Call me crazy, Worm, but I do believe that if you go to sleep, the election results will occur without you. UNLESS there is something you haven’t told us about yourself…
May I still visit the volcanoes even though I’m no longer a virgin? Or is it better that I’m not, so that I won’t be sacrificed? (hey, did the vikings sacrifice virgins?). I know they ate horsemeat–not that those things are related.
