I am legally required to vote today. Lawd, what a waste of time.
Looking through this list of candidates (at least it's just a local election) is pretty bleak. There's the Animal Justice Party, which I am unsurprisingly putting at number one (I can't be arsed explaining our strange voting system, to put it simply you number all candidates 1-10), but all of the other options fail to align with my own values very much at all from what I'm reading - and as far as I can gather from what I've read in the past about this arcane voting system, the weight of your vote basically goes to the first candidate in your preferences that would end up with enough votes to win overall.
At least there's this one weird party which somehow manages to be rather conservative yet liberal at the same time - they wanna tax the shit out of foreign nationals whilst legalising recreational marijuana, scrapping road tolls and offering free aged care, dentistry and education. Most of those issues aren't really ones I care about, but their policies are weird enough overall that I might as well vote for them.
There are also a couple of morons who are expecting votes without even having a website outlining their position or policies as far as I can see, but then one of them is pretty much actually certifiably insane so I suppose that shouldn't come as a surprise. Fukken independents, cluttering up my ballot and causing more meaningless decisions for me.
Ugh! This is a serious nuisance. At least I don't have to walk as far to reach a voting station as I did from where I lived before.
I'm supposed to be getting ready to go see bands tonight, instead I'm wasting time with this. Also I'm writing this post to procrastinate, so I should probably post it already and get on with the task at hand with less distractions...