the corner office

Our local voting station was queued up to the parking lot at lunchtime, but dead quiet after 6. A 'party official' was having a bit of a disagreement with an IEC official about some irregularity, but they settled it rather quickly. Booooring.

I always have a strong irrational fear in the voting booth that I'm going to screw up. I get all nervous about whether I've marked the right block, if my cross is big enough, too big? Should I have made a tick? Do corrections have to be initialled? Did I really mark the right block? Double-check, no turning back now, yes, oh bugger, now I have to put the voting slips in different boxes? Am I getting them right? White on white, yellow on yellow. Am I sure? The box looks kinda full, what if I can't fit the paper into the box? Are people staring at me? Am I taking too long at this?

Stupid, but there you go. Haveta suffer for democracy.