Elections
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Nick got to be an election observer supervisor on election day, and with his fancy little badge he got to take pictures as much as he wanted and no one said a thing. Which is pretty much awesome. So him and 3 others traveled around to about a dozen election stations to check on observers that were trained through the ECC. (The Church of Christ of Congo) There were many issues with people being able to find their names, every person running for any type of office was aloud to have a 'witness' at every election station if they wanted, so some stations had about 100 witnesses and some had none.
It started to rain about half way through the day, and here in Congo when it rains, everything just sorta stops, even if its inside. So when it started to rain, (and Congo rains aren't really a light sprinkle) they just sorta stopped taking people to vote and it was something that everyone sorta expected, even though it makes no sense to us.
Some places around the Congo did not get to Vote on the official voting day because they had not received the ballots, so they got to continue to vote 2 or even 3 days after.
This is what Nick wrote about his election experience
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