Civic duty: I voted!
Feb. 21st, 2013 04:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milktreeI voted for the first time today. Kinda.
Italy has a different method of absentee ballot than the US, not to mention a different method of electing candidates. I don't understand all of it, yet.
Thankfully, they sent me instructions:
And in English too:
They send me a certificate that says I'm a legitimate voter, the top bit has stuff about me, I tear off the bottom bit
and include it in the postage paid envelope:
with the two ballots for Senate and Chamber of Deputies
You vote for a party, and you can put a preference for a particular candidate if you want. I have no idea how the preferences are factored in. They provide a cheat-sheet of whom each party is putting forward:
What isn't shown is that the ballots go in a sealed unmarked envelope, then that envelope goes in the brown postage paid envelope with the certificate of eligibility, so the actual vote can be kept secret while making sure that only the right people vote. I assume the white envelopes get handled by a different group than those who open the outer envelope.
It's pretty weird to be considered part of "right people to vote" in an election of a country I've never been to; I'm hardly an "informed voter". I voted against Berlusconi's party.
Italy has a different method of absentee ballot than the US, not to mention a different method of electing candidates. I don't understand all of it, yet.
Thankfully, they sent me instructions:
And in English too:
They send me a certificate that says I'm a legitimate voter, the top bit has stuff about me, I tear off the bottom bit
and include it in the postage paid envelope:
with the two ballots for Senate and Chamber of Deputies
You vote for a party, and you can put a preference for a particular candidate if you want. I have no idea how the preferences are factored in. They provide a cheat-sheet of whom each party is putting forward:
What isn't shown is that the ballots go in a sealed unmarked envelope, then that envelope goes in the brown postage paid envelope with the certificate of eligibility, so the actual vote can be kept secret while making sure that only the right people vote. I assume the white envelopes get handled by a different group than those who open the outer envelope.
It's pretty weird to be considered part of "right people to vote" in an election of a country I've never been to; I'm hardly an "informed voter". I voted against Berlusconi's party.
