Voting by Dart

In Indonesian elections, voters use a nail to punch a hole in the face of their preferred candidate. Only those ballot papers with one hole are valid.

The ballot papers used yesterday consisted of a long sheet of folded paper that did not need to be fully opened for voters to see all five candidates. Millions of voters yesterday punched a hole that went through their preferred candidate and on through another part of the paper containing voting information. Many of those votes were initially declared invalid.

You punch a hole in the face of your preferred candidate? How counter-intuitive is that? They should make the voters draw devil horns on all the candidates they don’t want, and a halo on the one they do. Then there’d be no confusion.

July 6, 2004. Uncategorized. 2 Comments.

2 Comments

  1. Factory replied:

    1) there are far more muslims in Indonesia than there are christians 2) All religious pictures of mohammud have his face scratched out.

    Maybe it’s not such a dumb idea after all?

    July 6th, 2004 at 4:42 pm. Permalink.

  2. Dan replied:

    Hmm … perhaps not the best joke I ever made … but you could substitute a more culturally appropriate form of graffiti, and it would still be funny(ish).

    July 6th, 2004 at 7:58 pm. Permalink.