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[labellementeuse]

*sigh* Well, I voted. Actually, I special-voted (ten minutes instead of two) because I was doorknocking to get out the vote in Christchurch Central with a couple of my cohorts and we passed a polling place and we thought, why not? On the downside, this means my vote won't be counted for... um... ages. This is kinda bad because I would like final election results ASAP. I will be drinking tonight!

non-Kiwis should check out this Diary of a New Zealand Voter from I/S, which I guess was written for Daily KOS but you should read it there and then check out the rest of No Right Turn because it rocks.

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[aleph-naught.livejournal.com]

Woah, I just realized who you are. This is Danny from YL. I'm not even sure how you ended up on my friends list but yay. :D

I feel totally lame for not doing anything to help out today, but the only comms I got was a text from Cameron around midnight last night about doing some work in Selwyn/Waimak starting super early in the morning. By this point I had already gotten way too drunk to even think about getting up in time for something like that. If I'd known that you guys were doing doorknocking in town though I would've been totally keen for that.

No matter, hopefully you managed to drag a few people off their couches to the polling booths. You coming to the shindig at Harriet's tonight?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

LOLOL hi! I was totally going to friend you after I read you being eloquent in amarynth's LJ a couple days ago but I thought it would be creepy. Wow, small world!

I decided I actually feel really good about my doorknocking/phoning efforts to get out the vote, because we won in the electorates I volunteered in, but by seriously narrow margins - 880 votes for Brendon, even less than that for Clayton.

[aleph-naught.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have a bunch of mutual friends actually.. I live with Will Howard and there were a couple of sci-fi club things here shortly before I got involved with the branch. In hindsight I'm pretty sure I met you at them but I'd somehow failed to connect 'Tui the YL person' to 'that girl who was at my house those couple of times watching Babylon 5'. You know how it is :)

I ended up walking all the way home from Harriet's, which while taking about 2 hours was rather therapeutic. I'm taking consolation in the fact that we get to spend the next three years stickin' it to the man.