Elections

**wynn** · 08-May-14, 02:42 PM

Or should that be 'Erections'

I enjoyed casting my 'Yes in Russian' vote yesterday, I had just joined what promised to be a two hour que when an official came up to me and said "If you are over 60 you can go to the front of the que!" so without further ado I jumped and in 5 minutes was back in my car on the way home.

**IanF** · 08-May-14, 02:53 PM

I went at 2 and had a 15 minute wait because my surname starts with F and that was the only section with a queue and an idiot trying to draw lines on the voters roll.

**wynn** · 08-May-14, 03:28 PM

Making your mark!

**Blurock** · 10-May-14, 09:01 AM

So the election is now behind us. The majority of people are fed-up with the ANC, but they still voted for them!?? What does that say about our political maturity?

**Dave A** · 10-May-14, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Blurock

The majority of people are fed-up with the ANC, but they still voted for them!?? What does that say about our political maturity?

There are fairly significant shifts behind those numbers, though.

I was listening to a discussion about British politics the other day, and given all the issues in play in their politics at the moment, I couldn't help but be struck by the thought that putting a cross in one box is an awfully simplistic way of trying to express your views across a multitude of issues.

And our electorate faces the same problem. You may support one party's position on one issue, and another party's position on another. So what do you do?
You're pretty much forced to discount the side shows and go where you feel most comfortable overall.

**Marq** · 13-May-14, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by Dave A

And our electorate faces the same problem. You may support one party's position on one issue, and another party's position on another. So what do you do?
You're pretty much forced to discount the side shows and go where you feel most comfortable overall.

For the majority of the electorate in this country its pretty easy.

The main policy in play was .....do I choose a black party or a white party?
The black guys had the choice - Malema or Zuma.

In the sa political forum on facebook and other reading during the run up, very little was discussed on actual party positions and policies. Every discussion came very quickly back to the black / white issue. There was a contingent of vengeful black racists calling the whities racists and other names and everything related back to apartheid. The majority of users were quiet either condoning the black sentiment or white guys too scared to piss the black guys off.

The problem seen in this environment appears to be that black guys idea of a debate is actually a position statement followed by a personal attack on the opposition. The white guys mostly offered timid thoughts trying to pussy foot around the issues trying to avoid an outburst of accusations of being called racists.

So the black guys could say whatever they wanted, which mostly included hate speech and racist remarks, while the white guys discussed the weather and were labelled racist for calling the cloud dark. All related back to the whites in the world of all ages being responsible for apartheid.

The maturity level and some real input into the policies and positions has a long way to go in this country.

**Dave A** · 08-May-14, 03:48 PM

It was just a half hour in the queue for me. And pleasant enough - everyone was cheerful and relaxed.

**bjsteyn** · 08-May-14, 06:46 PM

10 minutes in and out. Was very impressed. Who organizes / is in charge of the voting ?

**Blurock** · 08-May-14, 11:09 PM

took exactly 5 minutes. 20 minutes from home & back!

**bjsteyn** · 09-May-14, 01:07 AM

Ok so IEC is in charge, gathered that much from the facebook debate on the 3rd Degree page. They found EFF and DA voting ballads that were dumped. The one guy chuned "it was fake" and the other guy chuned him "ur fathers condom was fake" LOL I pissed myself. Found this to be so amusing https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...ce=46&refid=17