Why I Voted... at all

I don't begrudge the apathetic this election because it was a lame, dirty, boring and badly played game. I can pretty much say that today my vote meant nothing. Tomorrow we'll have the same disjointed government, an opposition so obsessed with winning power back they're not willing to run this country, except into the ground perhaps. Yawn. It's all theatrics and war games, and there is nothing exciting about it. And perhaps if my polling station had not been across the street from my house, I mightn't have even bothered going. Really. But of course I went.

I vote in elections because less than a century ago, my sex was not thought fit to do so. I can't take a right for granted when presented in those terms, or turn my back upon it when women before me fought so bravely. And so when I vote, I vote as a woman first and foremost. I voted Liberal today, pretty much solely because they value reproductive rights and have a small hope of winning. Not very inspiring I know, but they didn't really give me much to go on.