Don't know if this qualifies, I'll leave that to the OP.
Saturday 16th March 2024 (tomorrow, at my time of writing), Queenslanders go to the Polls to vote in aldermen and women (Councillors) and Mayors for all the local government shires across the state.
Our state agency for elections sent the following to us some weeks ago, via email, and it says in part
The large blacked out object is a QR code or similar.
Now, I was going to print this out today, ready for tomorrow, then thought
"Hang on a second!" and did some searching.
Historically, to vote, we attend on the nearest primary school or church hall, queue up and when at the front, a seated person asks our name and address, and using a ruler and pen put a line though the relevant entry in a large register of voters, issue us with ballot papers and off we go to a booth where there is a pencil or pen awaiting us, vote, fold papers and put in box.
(no such thing as electronic voting out here in the Boonies).
There are around 5,500,000 people in Queensland, of whom 3,500,000 are enrolled voters.
So our Electoral Commission have saved on trees by emailing us a notice on how to vote more quickly, but in return, they are asking for us to print out 3.500,000 pages to do so.
How many trees is
that lost???
So tomorrow, I will:
attend on the nearest primary school or church hall, queue up and when at the front, a seated person asks our name and address, and using a ruler and pen put a line though the relevant entry in a large register of voters, issue us with ballot papers and off we go to a booth where there is a pencil or pen awaiting us, vote, fold papers and put in box.
Above is me, as the frog, doing my little bit to save the planet.
Avagudweegend, all
Wizard