Because part 2 comes in two weeks…

Yesterday I went down to vote, easy procedure given the fact that I changed my address recently so I can vote where I live now without any problem. When I got there, there was a man in front of me who found out that someone else had already signed for him. The lady in charge with the lists justified herself in the most absurd ways: “some other man came and he had the same personal number and name, just the series of the ID was different but I corrected it”… After some 5 minutes of investigating the problem they realized that the lady made a confusion between two persons and asked one to sign in the wrong place. Her justification was “the names are just too similar, it confused me” (the names being Cucu and Cunea). So the second guy came, voted, and signed for the first one. The lady realized she had made a mistake so she panicked a bit, it took her a while to sort out her lists and find my name on them, actually I had to point out my name for her. But after doing that I could vote and go home. For the rest of the day I kept checking the preliminary results, not very curious to see who goes to the second round but more curious to see how many people actually voted (there were some quite nice campaigns encouraging people to go out and make a statement). And I can say that I am very disappointed, just a few over 50% of people with the right to vote did it.

Yesterday morning I got a text message on my phone saying this: “Dear Gheorghe (a popular Romanian male name), we’re waiting for you to vote! Choose the change all the way. Vote for Victor Ponta (name of one candidate)! Signed: Deputy Mayor Aurelia S. Political Party President Ionel A.” Thanks for trying to influence me total strangers but my name is not Gheorghe, I am not a guy and I don’t need text messages to decide who to vote for, whoever I may want to choose. And that is my business and right.

As I said, second part comes in two weeks.