Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Rich Lock,
Although I do wonder how many orange papers ended up in the purple box, and vice-versa. A lot of colourblind voters out there...
Having a colour-blind son, I do actually worry about colour-blind voters. I mean, I assume the buff/orange/purple shades are toned so colour-blind people can tell them apart, but all of our instructions were written to include the colours.
I should note that the guidelines for dealing with handicapped/disabled voters were intelligent and sensitive. No, actually, you don't get to touch people just because they're Deaf.
NO, THAT ONE!
Having children, I could spot the point at which to take a deep breath in order to avoid yelling, "Where I'm pointing! Look where I'm fucking POINTING!"
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Aren’t we too early to be on to Emma’s … er … Port Hills
Oh dude, it's better than being too late.
I...yeah. I'm going to take that as a sign I should go to bed.
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Ross Mason,
maybe "we" can now see that plonking a sign anywhere may not be the best place for it
Most of the procedures (particularly those for the count) are obviously precision-honed from intelligent practice. Which makes me wonder why nobody has noticed that the signage isn't working.
The signs behind the issuing tables are at eye level, so you should see them. But when you walk up to a sitting person, your eye level drops to the level of their head. So the signs are too high up. If they were on the fronts of the tables, they'd be too low down.
Which leads me to the unfortunate conclusion that, in order for people to see it, my "Port Hills" sign should be on my chest.
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Already my evil empire is growing.
Mwa ha ha ha!
Well you know what they say.
every night,
The set that's smart
Is intruding in nudist parties in studiosIn fact, yeah, here's your campaign song:
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to FletcherB,
And appeared to completely ignore the second bit of info…. and found my name dictionary-search style…
No. Oddly enough, that's really not what's supposed to happen.
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Lara,
The boxes at our booth were rearranged within the first hour, which led to far fewer mistakes. We also had someone on the door directing people to the correct table.
Yes, we had an information officer at the door, which mitigated this but didn't stop it. My second most frequently used phrase all day was, "You're Christchurch Central, you want the two tables down the end." And after about... two hours? I suggested the PPM move the Port Hills boxes so they were closest to the voting booths, because the most common problem was people coming out and just using the closest boxes, which at that stage were Chch East. That helped, but again, didn't stop it.
was asking me what I thought would happen if he ate his ballot while in the booth
That, also, kind of awesome.
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to James Butler,
Voting for arse - that might increase turnout!
At one point, while I was on my break, I texted Megan and said, "Have to stop perving at voters. Stupid hot voters."
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
speculating aloud - quietly, to be fair, but still aloud - while waiting in line in banks on how he'd stage a robbery
My friend who works for the Ministry of [Redacted] and I were once asked to leave a bank because we were standing in the middle of it, while waiting for a friend, pointing at security cameras and obviously plotting.
despite being not just hospitalised but dependent on various life support systems. So they wheeled the whole setup through the hospital to the on-site polling booth.
That's kind of awesome. We did have one woman come in, obviously near tears, wanting to cast a vote for her husband, who was in hospital basically dying. Telling her she couldn't was heart-breaking. So of course we gave her a takeaway vote - she took the papers out of the booth, and then later on brought them back filled in. That's completely different...
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Easiest way: if you knew for sure that someone wasn't going to vote, you could basically just rock up to a polling booth and vote in their name.
Easiest way for mild scale: rock along to the student villages the day the EasyVote cards are posted out.
This. So. Many. Times.
A friend of mine swore blind to me that her polling booth - in Ilam, but a block from the border with Wigram - only did votes for Ilam, because all the signs on the tables said "Ordinary Votes". It seems people can see those, the little folded signs on the tables, but not the signage behind the tables. And while I've enjoyed my bitch, surely when that's happening you change the signage, you don't expect all the voters to change their behaviour.
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Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
There was good news! MMP!!
Except I knew perfectly well nobody had counted the referendum votes. No-one's counted the referendum votes, people.