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French elections in Portland
by joon
A "bureau de vote" will be open in Portland for inhabitants from Idaho and Oregon. What is convenient for me and my coworkers is that only this is taking place in Portland, but this is taking place at my school on SW Corbett avenue. I will be volunteer there half day on Saturday, April 21rd
French living abroad will be voting one day before than in France.
In France, you vote on Sundays and schools are where everything happens. For the "presidentielles", you vote twice. The first Sunday is called : Premier tour, and you by voting for one candidate, it narrows the choice for the "deuxieme tour" to two candidates.
"Le deuxieme tour" always takes place two weeks later, the first Sunday of May.
When going there you show you ID, and your "carte d'electeur" (voter's card), you take one envelop and one or several paper with the name of the candidates and you go hide yourself in a "cabin" where you can choose to put your favourite guy's name in the envelop and throw the rest away.
Then you get out and go to the table where you are going to put your envelops in the box while someone says : "a vote"
Unfortunately, this year I won't be able to vote at the "deuxieme tour" and that sucks because that is the important one. Ironically, I will be in France at the time, or more precisely on a plane to here.
I was not able to ask someone to vote for me as I registered here and they don't do that or anyway I don't remember but that was a complicated story with administration stuffs and if I start, we will be still here after the "deuxieme tour"
Well, Francais, Francaise, let's do that right! Some pretty wicked candidate are out there to take "freedomland" over. oh, oh, I heard that somewhere.... Let me start over, let's get someone not too bad to keep France from becoming worse and a place that we won't be proud of!
As we say in France : "C'est pas gagne!"
Comments
oh it's cool, we haven't tv but sometimes I wish I had TV5!
Posted by: joon at April 14, 2007 5:08 PM
I got a flyer in the mail promoting TV coverage of the french elections... I was really confused until I remembered we subscribe to TV5 and Monde via dish network.
Posted by: Gene at April 14, 2007 10:26 AM