[ale] [OT] Please Help me with my homework

[drifter at oppositelock.org (Drifter)]

One of the first secret ballots was part of Australian law.  But it had an 
interesting quirk.  The ballot often was very large because full texts of 
legal proposals were printed. The ballot had to be "properly" folded 
before it was handed back to the election judge to be put into the ballot 
box.  This served as a way to discriminate against the indigineous 
population as they had no clue about paper and reading the crease lines to 
figure out how to fold it back up.
I was joking on the folding of maps, not the reading of them.

Sean

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On Saturday, April 02, 2011 08:05:34 am Tom Freeman wrote:
> On 04/01/2011 03:27 PM, Drifter wrote:
> > Aha, you might have been able to vote in Australia. :)
> > 
> > Sean
> 
> Ok. I'm not getting it.  What does having map skills have to do with
> voting in Australia? That is far enough off the wall I'm curious...
> 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > On Friday, April 01, 2011 02:17:05 pm Tom Freeman wrote:
> > > Back in the day (old fogey here) we had that capability. Called a
> > > map.
> > > 
> > > 8-) Some of us even learned how to fold them up nicely.
> 
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