Sept 23
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- Loosely scraplifted https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/240027855121161270/
A New Day by Amber LaBau
New Beginnings by Pink Reptile Design
Start Here by Sara Gleason
Storyteller August 2014 by Just Jaimee
Storyteller January 2014 by Just Jaimee
In the weeks leading up to this year’s election, things down in Wellington were changing every hour it seemed unlike any other election period I had ever worked. This was my 4th time working as an Election Day official issuing and counting votes but the first time working in an Advanced Voting Place in the two week lead up to September 23rd. Coming into this election, I thought I knew what the results would be both for the electorate and nationally….boy I was wrong. Well in one way I was right, I had a pretty good idea that the electorate vote would most likely go to National and especially for the voting place I was located in on Election Day but I had no idea how much the advanced and special votes were going to change the landscape of parliament overall. I honestly thought that it was going to be ‘status quo’ like it had always been since I became involved in elections when I was 18 years old. When the news came in early October that the new government was being lead by Jacinda Ardern of Labour with support from the Green Party and New Zealand First I was rather surprised. Personally I was really pleased that the power had shifted as I felt far more strongly about the policies that Labour and Greens had in terms of social development, health, education and disabilities.
