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...and my BFF and I went to tally postal votes again. She was only coming back from her vacation on that day and we didn't know if she'd make it on time, so my mom accompanied me to step in, if needed. We were just getting coffee around the corner from the cityhall, when my BFF texted that she was wating at the entrance. Yay, she didn't encounter any jams or other problems.
So when mom and I where at the cityhall entrance, she handed over the coffee and went home. My BFF was adorably thankful for the free coffee. She was also adorable because (besides some tan) she had gotten some freckles. Fucking freckles, how do they work? Why don't they appear on me?
This time we were 6 people in the room, so 1 more than usual. All over Germany there had been more postal votes than usual. 2 of our colleagues we had worked with before.
Apparently we were lucky with our 585 postal votes to count - we were told that the people in the room next to us had about 1000.
First we opened the envelopes and checked if all contained the signed paper with name & address of the voter and a closed envelope containing the ballot. We had some envelopes coming from other countries (Spain, France, Denmark and the Netherlands, I think), which annoyingly had cost the voters postage (if sent from withing Germany, it's postage free). I was surprised to see how many people have middle names, some even 2 of them. You see, I thought middle names are rarer over here, but maybe that's just my generation. My favorite thing about this part of the tallying was that I noticed that one voters lives in a street that translates to Privet Drive.
16:30 we were done with opening & checking the envelopes and had a break until 18:00 (that's when polls close, so we're not allowed to start the real tallying before that).
BFF and I went to a café, where she ate a cake and we both sweated. As did the rest of the people in there, I'm sure. Seriously, why did they turn up the heating like that?!
Then we went to our usual tallying-break place: McDonald's. We ate and chatted and time went by surprisingly fast.
By 18:00 we were all back in our cityhall room and started the tallying. We had to sort out first and second votes, so I expected this to take some time. I remember that we once tallied until about 22:00, and I expected it to take that long this time too. But it went much faster, by 20:00 we were done. After packing everything up, we could go home at 20:10. Yay!
So when mom and I where at the cityhall entrance, she handed over the coffee and went home. My BFF was adorably thankful for the free coffee. She was also adorable because (besides some tan) she had gotten some freckles. Fucking freckles, how do they work? Why don't they appear on me?
This time we were 6 people in the room, so 1 more than usual. All over Germany there had been more postal votes than usual. 2 of our colleagues we had worked with before.
Apparently we were lucky with our 585 postal votes to count - we were told that the people in the room next to us had about 1000.
First we opened the envelopes and checked if all contained the signed paper with name & address of the voter and a closed envelope containing the ballot. We had some envelopes coming from other countries (Spain, France, Denmark and the Netherlands, I think), which annoyingly had cost the voters postage (if sent from withing Germany, it's postage free). I was surprised to see how many people have middle names, some even 2 of them. You see, I thought middle names are rarer over here, but maybe that's just my generation. My favorite thing about this part of the tallying was that I noticed that one voters lives in a street that translates to Privet Drive.
16:30 we were done with opening & checking the envelopes and had a break until 18:00 (that's when polls close, so we're not allowed to start the real tallying before that).
BFF and I went to a café, where she ate a cake and we both sweated. As did the rest of the people in there, I'm sure. Seriously, why did they turn up the heating like that?!
Then we went to our usual tallying-break place: McDonald's. We ate and chatted and time went by surprisingly fast.
By 18:00 we were all back in our cityhall room and started the tallying. We had to sort out first and second votes, so I expected this to take some time. I remember that we once tallied until about 22:00, and I expected it to take that long this time too. But it went much faster, by 20:00 we were done. After packing everything up, we could go home at 20:10. Yay!
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