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  • OK...that's bizarre...

    Note: this is not a place for discussing the benefits/drawbacks of elections or voting systems around the world.

    So today my partner and I went and voted. The way that it works over here in Ausland is that when you go and vote, you give them your name and address and the person behind the counter crosses your name off by putting a line through your record in their giant book before you get handed your ballot papers.

    While we're waiting for the guy to check our names off, I notice that the ruler they were using to cross the names off was stamped "AEC Certified List Ruler", complete with instructions on how to use it. (This is what it looks like)

    My first thoughts were: 1) Why does it need to be certified and 2) who actually certified it?!

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    Someone has to make sure that it is straight. To be fair, you need to make sure it doesn't bend to the left or right.
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    • #3
      Quoth csquared View Post
      Someone has to make sure that it is straight. To be fair, you need to make sure it doesn't bend to the left or right.
      *thwap*
      *thwap*
      *thwap*

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      • #4
        Quoth lordlundar View Post
        *thwap*
        *thwap*
        *thwap*

        Bad joke! Bad!
        Ahem. Did you use a properly certified ruler to whack csquared's knuckles?
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        • #5
          Quoth LadyofArc View Post
          Note: this is not a place for discussing the benefits/drawbacks of elections or voting systems around the world.

          So today my partner and I went and voted. The way that it works over here in Ausland is that when you go and vote, you get given a handful of corks and shove them into the orifices of the candidates you do not support
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          • #6
            Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
            Justfixedthatforya😊


            But wouldn't that make them float?

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            • #7
              Quoth LadyofArc View Post

              But wouldn't that make them float?
              And explode after a while...
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              • #8
                Quoth LadyofArc View Post


                But wouldn't that make them float?
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                • #9
                  Quoth LadyofArc View Post
                  My first thoughts were: 1) Why does it need to be certified and 2) who actually certified it?!
                  Well, if they have to put instructions on a packet of toothpicks, why not rulers? >_>
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                  • #10
                    I bet it was some poor guy that was forced by his politician boss to work all night writing the new regulations. In a moment of petty giggling he added that the rulers must be certified thinking that there is no way it would make it into the final regulations...


                    Forgetting that they never read anything past the first line.

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                    • #11
                      Perhaps certified rulers are required so that they would have to purchased from the only dealer that is authorized to sell certified rulers.
                      "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                      • #12
                        Bureaucracy in action
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