*Pic: Image from HERE: Doc Searls, Flickr
We are currently in an EU country and trying to vote.
I ring the consular section of the local Oz embassy.
Options offered:
1. Come and vote at our embassy from date x to date y (400km one way + 2 hours ferry from where we are).
2. Use postal vote via aec.gov.au , “download the postal vote form”, says the embassy lady.
This is what you get if you take option 2:
http://cdn-src.tasmaniantimes.com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/20160602_WEB_Postal_Report.csv
And, no, there are no other documents available for downloading. But nothing goes without the voting form.
Does anyone find this as scandalous as I do?
*Peter Brenner is retired … and still making little beeps, before vanishing into the irrelevance of old age. His philosophical underpinning may be summed up thus: ‘No economy of any hue can succeed without the base of a fully functioning and nurtured biosphere. Repeat 4 times daily, before meals.’
• Fairfax: Election 2016: Malcolm Turnbull is losing it, one retreat at a time
MEANWHILE in The Saturday Paper (take your pick from the one free read) …
• Political dirt units defining elections
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