No, you go to your designated voting place (usually a school, the city hall or church in small villages) you put your paper ballot in the box and that’s all.
People doubling their trip to the polling station as a dog walk. Because there is no actual campaign news to report until the evening when the votes are counted, the rolling news is just full of pictures of doggies.
I wonder what Bismarck would have had to say about democracy sausages.
No, but sounds great! Maybe it’s because it’s mandatory anyway in Australia? Whereas in most countries it’s not?
In the Soviet era, the day of the single-candidate elections was turned into a festival. There was a buffet at the polling stations, a brass band, and the like. My grandfather told me this. But now that’s not the case anymore. Or maybe I just haven’t encountered it.
Culture is maybe to strong a word
In the Dutch speaking half “de goei” (the good ones) has become a bit of a thing. Mostly people asking eachother who they’ll vote for and people answering “de goei”, or people joking about voting for the bad ones thig year instead.
And naturally our version of the onion, [De Raaskalderij](https://www.raaskalderij.be/), posting a poll saying “de goei” projected to win by 100% which is unprecedented. As usually ist politicians of the same onld parties.
In Denmark you will ofthen find people serving fried pork on election day, and supermarkets having offers for cheap pork belly.
This is an ironic take on the term ‘valgflæsk’ (litterally ‘election pork’) meaning sort of ‘semi doable promises of wealth to encourage people to vote for you’ eg last minutes decalrations on intend to deduce tax rates/set aside money for certain high profile issues etc. withouth much thought of the general line of your politics.
There arent really stalls with food on election sides, they tend to be far to efficient for that to make sense, but you will ofthen get a small piece of candy when you vote. At least in Copenhagen.
In Cyprus, it’s not unusual to have election watch parties if your friends are somewhat politically-minded. Usually a function to get drunk to drown the sorrows of how messed up the country is.
It’s quite common to have *vaalikahvit* (lit. election coffee) right after voting. There could even be coffee and sweets for sale in the voting place – sold by schoolkids fundraising for their class trip.
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No, you go to your designated voting place (usually a school, the city hall or church in small villages) you put your paper ballot in the box and that’s all.
People doubling their trip to the polling station as a dog walk. Because there is no actual campaign news to report until the evening when the votes are counted, the rolling news is just full of pictures of doggies.
I wonder what Bismarck would have had to say about democracy sausages.
No, but sounds great! Maybe it’s because it’s mandatory anyway in Australia? Whereas in most countries it’s not?
In the Soviet era, the day of the single-candidate elections was turned into a festival. There was a buffet at the polling stations, a brass band, and the like. My grandfather told me this. But now that’s not the case anymore. Or maybe I just haven’t encountered it.
Culture is maybe to strong a word
In the Dutch speaking half “de goei” (the good ones) has become a bit of a thing. Mostly people asking eachother who they’ll vote for and people answering “de goei”, or people joking about voting for the bad ones thig year instead.
And naturally our version of the onion, [De Raaskalderij](https://www.raaskalderij.be/), posting a poll saying “de goei” projected to win by 100% which is unprecedented. As usually ist politicians of the same onld parties.
In Denmark you will ofthen find people serving fried pork on election day, and supermarkets having offers for cheap pork belly.
This is an ironic take on the term ‘valgflæsk’ (litterally ‘election pork’) meaning sort of ‘semi doable promises of wealth to encourage people to vote for you’ eg last minutes decalrations on intend to deduce tax rates/set aside money for certain high profile issues etc. withouth much thought of the general line of your politics.
There arent really stalls with food on election sides, they tend to be far to efficient for that to make sense, but you will ofthen get a small piece of candy when you vote. At least in Copenhagen.
In Cyprus, it’s not unusual to have election watch parties if your friends are somewhat politically-minded. Usually a function to get drunk to drown the sorrows of how messed up the country is.
It’s quite common to have *vaalikahvit* (lit. election coffee) right after voting. There could even be coffee and sweets for sale in the voting place – sold by schoolkids fundraising for their class trip.