election day, #1
so yesterday were state-wide elections and yours truly went to vote, like a good citizen.
because I am also a boring hermit with nothing better to do, I documented the day in pictures.
everyone in my part if town went to vote at a local elementary school:
the other picture I took came out weird, it's almost as if the camera adapted to me being a near-constant drunk and adopted my booze-vision haha
making my way inside - above the entrance it says "boys' school", a remnant of separate-sex education from way back when:
trying to find the designated room for my neighbourhood...where I promptly ran into a neighbour who talked to me about my mother and looked so sad and ugh
here it is! you can see the big bins where the voting slips go:
there were examples of the voting slips hung up next to every door - as you can see, a lot of stuff was to be decided about this time:
bunch of folks waitin to vote, plus a look at some of the voting "booths" put up in the classrooms:
voting like a motherfucker:
all the documents in their folded-up form - half the time I spent sitting behind the voting table was used to figure out how to fold the damn things back together lol:
all done! you can see the old lady putting her votes in the bins. I didn't take pictures of myself doing it because it could possibly have involved talking to the volunteers about it which I was nowhere near drunk enough for:
leaving....the pattern on the floor looked trippy to me. thank god I wasn't on drugs.....at the time.
that's all!
not all of the results are in yet (I'm interested in how the referedums will turn out) but it's the same ol', same ol' as far as the State Diet is concerned. My state ("Bundesland" if ya feelin learn-y today), Bavaria, is the most conservative and old-fashioned one in the whole country so everybody already knew what's up.
The previous elections in 2008 were actually the first in over half a century where the conservative party didn't get the absolute majority (it regained that position this year). This year's elections also held a record-breaking 14% (!!) of votes that will not be represented in the State Parliament (including mine), because of a lot of parties not making the 5% threshold that is needed to be a part of the State Diet.
Anyway, there's another election a week from now - the big, country-wide one. I hope it's gonna be the end of Angela Merkel as our president, but I'll just have to wait and see.
because I am also a boring hermit with nothing better to do, I documented the day in pictures.
everyone in my part if town went to vote at a local elementary school:
the other picture I took came out weird, it's almost as if the camera adapted to me being a near-constant drunk and adopted my booze-vision haha
making my way inside - above the entrance it says "boys' school", a remnant of separate-sex education from way back when:
trying to find the designated room for my neighbourhood...where I promptly ran into a neighbour who talked to me about my mother and looked so sad and ugh
here it is! you can see the big bins where the voting slips go:
there were examples of the voting slips hung up next to every door - as you can see, a lot of stuff was to be decided about this time:
bunch of folks waitin to vote, plus a look at some of the voting "booths" put up in the classrooms:
voting like a motherfucker:
all the documents in their folded-up form - half the time I spent sitting behind the voting table was used to figure out how to fold the damn things back together lol:
all done! you can see the old lady putting her votes in the bins. I didn't take pictures of myself doing it because it could possibly have involved talking to the volunteers about it which I was nowhere near drunk enough for:
leaving....the pattern on the floor looked trippy to me. thank god I wasn't on drugs.....at the time.
that's all!
not all of the results are in yet (I'm interested in how the referedums will turn out) but it's the same ol', same ol' as far as the State Diet is concerned. My state ("Bundesland" if ya feelin learn-y today), Bavaria, is the most conservative and old-fashioned one in the whole country so everybody already knew what's up.
The previous elections in 2008 were actually the first in over half a century where the conservative party didn't get the absolute majority (it regained that position this year). This year's elections also held a record-breaking 14% (!!) of votes that will not be represented in the State Parliament (including mine), because of a lot of parties not making the 5% threshold that is needed to be a part of the State Diet.
Anyway, there's another election a week from now - the big, country-wide one. I hope it's gonna be the end of Angela Merkel as our president, but I'll just have to wait and see.