At 6.40 am, after taking a small portion of fried rice and egg, I went outside and continued walking slowly to the direction of the voting place. Some of my neighbors were also going out from their house. I was thinking that they want to go to the same direction as mine. Quickly on the second thought, considering the outfit they worn at that time, they were just doing their morning jogging. Nevertheless, they did go to the same way as mine. Only, they turn left a few meters before the place.
The voting event was held in a small open space approximately one block away from my house. By the time I arrived there, only few people were there. They were all the member of the voting committee, including my father. The voting process was not even started yet. Even so, I handed over my voter card and the voting invitation to the man near the entrance. He gave me a queue ticket mentioning “1″ on it. The first voter I was. Then I was just sitting nicely on one of the provided chairs and started taking some pictures using my cellphone. A few minutes later, my mother and one of our neighbors came, took the queue number as well and sitting in front of me.
Having seeing three voters in the place, the head of the committee decided to officially open the events. It was started by taking the pledge of all members of the committee. It was continued by showing the sealed collecting box to all audience. After that, the committee was checking the completeness of all things pertaining to the voting process, like the quantity of the vote papers, the availability of inks, and the piercing tools. After everything was checked, he then explained the procedures by giving some demonstrations on what voter should and should not do during the voting process.
After all were settled, he then called me as the first person to vote. I raised from my seat, received the vote paper from him, and walked to the voting chamber. I put a small hole on one of the three numbers in the papers. After that, I folded the paper and bring it to the examiner (which was my father) and put it on the vote-collecting box. I walked to the second table, put my litter finger in one of the ink bottle.
Finished, I immediately went home.
(err.. the pair which I had chosen, turn out to be the winners.)
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