Voting day
Ah... so good... to go to the votation bureau! To face an empty room with the 2 delegates playing cards, to kill time, and they smiled at me. Good Afternoon!! I entered. Greeted the boy and the girl, slaves of the government. Chosen among 15 million ppl in são paulo, to spend the whole day locked inside a room, to monitor the elections poll.
I decided to talk a bit with them. Poor souls. I voted. Then went to the street market to eat lunch at those stands. Mmmm
I was chosen once to work on the votation rooms and gosh, that was very funny although tiresome.
I had the privilege to participate in the first election using a voting machine!!
I was responsible for the section. I had no idea of what I was supposed to do until the day of the votation. We had to arrive in the election zone one hour before it opened. There we had to listen carefully a man preaching about the do's and dont's , and all the security thing, the counting, etc. I was feeling very proud of myself to be chosen to be the head responsible for the whole section , lol
I had to wear a badge with my name and a government symbol, and below my name there was the saying:"Cristiane da Cunha Lobo"
"President of section"
Section 528
hahaha
Then, I was very worried about what to do in case something goes wrong in the machines? We had 2 machines in our section. I was told that in case soemthing went wrong, we had to replace the electronic vote for bullet ones.Then, I had to tidy the room, along with the other boys and girls ( we were all the same age, what helped to keep the good mood and to socialize during the working day for elections,lol), to push all the seats to one side of the room, and have 5 tables in a row, where we would be sitting all day long, helping the democratic process goes on.
As the person, the elector arrived, we ask: "Your voting id, sir?" , then we get the number of the elector and confirm in the list we have. Then we ask him to sign his name below his name in the list, and give him a receipt. Then, we told him to go to one of the voting machines and vote.
After, we give back the ID and say "Good Morning".
Well. the thing is that things were not that easy and simple,lol
There were ppl who took ages to vote. Ppl who forgot the ID at home, PPl who were blind, and also ppl who didnt have an idea of how to proceed before a voting machine.
But, well, the BEST part was when one of the voting machines got fire! HAhahahaha! That was a blast!!
We were all there, monitoring the electors, then, all of a sudden, we hear screams from the corridor, and some ppl running. Of course, OBVIOUS, that i left my section and went to the corridor to see what was going on. Then, I saw a guy I was friends with, coming to my direction, laughing. He said: Cris, one of the machines caught fire!" Hahahaha And then we both ran there and we saw the president of that section (all the same age, about 18 - 22 years old) with a paper, waving at the machine, blowing air, to make the fire goes off. Gosh! Then we all started to wonder what to do with the machine burning. Fastly one of the guys from the seats of delegates told us: Take the floppy disk out!!!!!! Take the floppy disk!!!!! Yes! how could we forget to save the disk with all the information of the votes?? Then, well, the machine was replaced for old and normal and fire-free bullets.But that was a very funny election. We , inside the section, started to make a competition cos on Tv the president said that in 1 minute you can vote and so we all started to count "1, 2, 3, 4, ...58, 59, 60!!" for the ppl in there while they were voting, and some electors joined the game and we all had a big laugh!
And then gosh, lol as u know during the day of election we can not drink in the country, we call it the "Sober Law", Hahahaha But some bars - of course - sell beer in plastic cups, so that no one can see whats tehre inside. And me and the boys and girls from the section, at 18hs , when we were allowed to leave the building, we all went to a bar and gosh, we drank until 2am !
I think that when you are younger, things tend to be funnier, cos u tend to laugh at anything ! And, also, u dont have such a serius compromisse with things, so, if a voting machine burns, w simply laugh. what if we lose the floppy disk with thousands of votes? damm it! Hahahahah
Life is easier when you are young at heart and age!
I imagine if it had happened today, that I am a bit bad tempered. lol I would be swearing all day long at the governemnt and I would be looking dreadful. I would write bytes and bytes of disgust on the mandatory work and would be saying that I had a terrible day.
hehe I was happier when I was younger. That is for sure. Life was simple and easy.
Escrito por às 16h48
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