And they're off! This is going to be one of the most unpredictable elections, in one of the most unusual situations, and during unprecedentedly volatile global and domestic events. Once again, everything is being returned to the province of dull pencils tied to walls, and that's fine.
As previously mentioned ad nauseum, there's something rather charming and quaint about wandering into your local polling station, being handed your badly cut voting sheet, and then concealing yourself in the little nook and marking a square with the old blunt pencil tied to the wall. It's just lovely. That pencil is connecting you to the future of your society, and for all you know that one vote might make the crucial difference, or it might be lost amongst a flood. You never really know. It always makes some kind of impact.
Another great thing about the dull pencils tied to the wall is that they make it much much harder to tamper with results. In this era of digital complexity, people are almost incapable of doing anything in the real world. Why on Earth would we want to computerise the voting system when there is so much hacking? If a system requires someone to have to do practically do something to cheat it, then that's an advantage in 2019. (That's also why sending paper letters is a great thing to do. Huzzah!)
We don't know what will happen in this election, nor what it will mean for the future, but some things remain the same. I will do my best to vote on the candidates once again, while keeping an eye on their party position. It's not enough to just look at the colour of the flower, as the quality of the person also matters. Let's hope the best candidates win, and that they have the wisdom to choose the best and fairest course available for everyone.
O.
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