Voting Day Habits/Rituals - Strictly for the Anoraks

[ProfCalculus]

Anyone have any particular habits or rituals around voting day?

When I was a kid, it became a kind of habit that we would drive as a family to the polling station around tea-time, parents would vote and then home again. Alway felt like a special event. *cue wave of nerdy nostalgia*

I don't really have any habits/rituals around it now that I'm older but maybe I should start a little tradition for myself in a Ronan O'Gara getting his hair cut for a big match kind of way.

*scuttles away in particularly tattered anorak*

[Clanrickard]

Anyone have any particular habits or rituals around voting day?

When I was a kid, it became a kind of habit that we would drive as a family to the polling station around tea-time, parents would vote and then home again. Alway felt like a special event. *cue wave of nerdy nostalgia*

I don't really have any habits/rituals around it now that I'm older but maybe I should start a little tradition for myself in a Ronan O'Gara getting his hair cut for a big match kind of way.

*scuttles away in particularly tattered anorak*

Always have a full Irish on the morning of the poll while mulling over the vote.

[Bea C]

'eeney-meeney-miney-mow' goes through my head on the drive to the school.
(P.S when i was small I used to like accompanying my parents too )

[sauntersplash]

I'm pleased to see somebody highlight the parallel between voting and religious hokum.

They both have a similar amount of impact on the real world.

[statsman]

Get up, go to work, come home, eat, go vote, hang around the polling station just sniffing the air.

[SeamusNapoleon]

Yeah, I saw parents bringing their young daughter in with them today.
I was only walking past, though, as I haven't voted yet, myself - still not sure of my preferences.
I agree with the hearty eating aspect of Clanrickard, though

[EvotingMachine0197]

I always bring my kids to the ballot station in an attempt to teach them that voting is important.

[80sEmigrant]

I always bring my kids to the ballot station in an attempt to teach them that voting is important.

I have a vague recollection of my mother taking me with her on polling day when I must have been around six years old. I suppose back in the day the turnout must have been higher than it generally is now because she had to wait around for what seemed to me to be an eternity.
So my enduring memory was that the whole thing is incredibly boring....

[eoghanacht]

I always bring my kids to the ballot station in an attempt to teach them that voting is important.

Me too, this will be my sons second time maybe third time at the polling station.

[EvotingMachine0197]

I have a vague recollection of my mother taking me with her on polling day when I must have been around six years old. I suppose back in the day the turnout must have been higher than it generally is now because she had to wait around for what seemed to me to be an eternity.
So my enduring memory was that the whole thing is incredibly boring....

Ah, voting only takes a minute. Your mam could have been chatting ..