There is a ballot across the street from my home.
But I was not to vote there. I was to vote in another ballot, about 3 minutes walk from my home.
I knew about this fact beforehand, so I wasted time on the near ballot area only to admire the posters put there by some of the political parties.
As I approached “my” ballot location, I saw posters there as well and tried to guess which parties are better organized.
There was no queue at entrance to the room where I was to vote. Ordinarily I am happy when there are no queues. But in this case, it was alarming – indicative of low turnout.
When voting, I had grave dilemma. There is one party, which should have representation in the Knesset. Its representation is rather essential, in fact. But if it gets too many MPs, it is liable to go berserk like Raful’s Tzomet or last Knesset’s Shinui.
On the other hand, there is another party, which will probably do reasonably good work governing the country. It does not have the important platform the first party has. But it is a party which populated its list of candidates with seasoned politicians, who held all kinds of positions where they needed to have real responsibility. It is a party, which the more seats it gets in the Knesset (up to limit of 60, of course), the better it will be in the next few years.
At least none of those two parties made it to the black list of parties, which send spam to the electorate.
Eventually I made my decision and voted.
