This election (and its aftermath) gets wackier and wackier all the time. Here are some of my favourite moments:
1. On voting day, folks that voted had their finger dipped in a super-enduring black ink in order to prevent people from voting at more than one location. A good idea in principle, but the ink remained on people’s fingers in spite of washing for four more days.
2. Confusion at the Majuro Airport voting station led officials to require people to write their names on ballots, assuring a fair and anonymous vote.
3. Merely days after the vote, the AKA Party changed its name to UPP. (Presumably this would indicate a change in platform of some kind, as some senators switched parties in the process, but since there are no platforms, the purpose of the name change appears to be aesthetic.)
4. Mr. Tomeing, Speaker of the House, switched parties (to the opposition) and declared a One China policy (contradicting his own former government’s policy to recognize Taiwan). In so doing, he failed to remember to return the expensive solar panel equipment Taiwan donated in order to electrify his home atoll of Wotje.
5. The Constitution indicates that voting will be held on Monday. However, because voting booths started late and were so incompetently run, some people waited in line for up to 12 hours, forcing them to vote in the early hours of Tuesday. Some are advocating that these votes be discarded because they occurred in an illegal manner.
If I waited in line for 12 hours and then my vote didn’t count, I would have words with the person responsible for that.
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