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The dog ate my ballot
: Australia requires voters to vote. But some make excuses:
A woman claimed she was having group sex with 30 men in Nimbin, NSW, and could not get to a polling booth in Queensland on time to vote.
That is the all-time best excuse, according to electoral commissioner Bob Longland.
Well, I would buy it. Or at least follow up.
30 men? Sounds like she has her own voting bloc.
We’ve all met people that we thank God don’t vote. I don’t see how requiring slobs to vote is good for a democracy. I take comfort in the fact that the informed and the motivated for the most part go to the polls. That’s as good as it gets in a democracy.