No of course not, I live in a civilized country.
No, I live in Austria the Netherlands - a place which can handle elections properly.
Then I might live in both an uncivilized country and a place in which can't handle elections properly (well, that's it, France!).
Well, for the last European elections (iirc 2014 then, yeah), I had a veeeeeeery hard time convincing me to go to vote, I had finally decided to go, but was always delaying the moment to go, finally, on the last mins, I decide to leave the armchair and go back to what they call civilization, it's ok, I can walk fast I need less than 10 mins to go (even if, who knows why, the polling station was on the other side from down town, while some others were closer, but not mine), gosh, maybe 5 mins left!
I run!
I run!
I run!
(well, my armchair legs were kinda chewing gum then, but still, I tried to give my best)
I finally reach the stuff, it's ok, it's not shut, I go toward the openned door, the guy in charge of checking your ID before you enter is in front of it, he smiles to me I smile to him, I say hello, I give my ID and......
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...
(hmm, it's not easy to do that sound correctly especially without nasals)
Well, the big bell that rings all over the city announces the vote is over, I nicely ask 'it's ok? I can still go?', he looks to at the guy in charge of it in the school room 'there is someone? can he go?' the young guy over there makes big negative signs with his hands and with his quite serious eyes behind his little round glasses say 'no no no, over, the bell has rung, period', I nicely ask him 'oh sure? I can't??' he confirmed it on the same tone.
I might have said something like 'oh well, that's life, too bad for them' to the ID guy, and I fled that stuff, I'm not sure of my mood, I was kinda pissed to have missed it but also kinda happy to make abstention grow.
Anyways I went to the core of down town and decided to do something I had never done so far...going to Subway.
Front National was expected to make it big so eating it in front of TV would be a ruined night all the way!
Front National effectively made it big, 25% of voters, and then could proudly spout out '1st party of France!'.
Subway was, as I expected, something worse than Mc Donald's, and that one in down town has anyhow shut a few months after.
And well, I never again entered a polling station thus participated in an election since then.
