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Federal election - getting the numbers

To: Paul Taylor <>
Subject: Federal election - getting the numbers
From: John Tongue <>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:50:15 +1000
Hi All,
Just back from doing my duty, though disappointingly quiet, at 4:30 on a warm Tassie afternoon. Only got Sparrow, Goldfinch and Masked Lapwing. I felt sure the regular Swift Parrots would be in the gum trees at the local High School, but not today. Sigh! Lots of party spruikers, who looked like they could do with an interesting diversion. Perhaps I should have got them to join in this competition in their own way, and see what they could see while handing out how-to-vote cards.

John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.


On 24/11/2007, at 3:34 PM, Paul Taylor wrote:

L&L Knight wrote:
It took longer to filling the senate ballot [I put the bird shooters party ~ 50] than to queue [I refused all how to vote cards as I already know how to vote]. Since I live a couple of blocks from the polling
> station, I counted the birds that I saw while doing my electoral duty.
> The rule was to walk faster than any incumbent politicians, so the
> total observation time was equivalent to the time Russell was in his
> queue.

I had a similar plan, and used Google Earth to choose a route making the most of the local vegetation as cover, and a quick dash across the road
to the entrance.  It mostly worked, though the queue left me stranded
in the open...  I met the local Greens senate candidate, Kerry Tucker,
so it seemed rude to decline a how-to-vote card. The other was from an
ALP helper, who must have mistaken me for someone else: "Kevin?"

Running the gauntlet of the local primary school teatowel and cookery
book hard-sellers on the way out was more harrowing that avoiding the
party reps. on the way in!  ;)

My own ballot list was far more modest than others:
   Galah
   Red-rumped Parrot
   Pied Currawong
   Rugrattus sp.

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