jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:

> Apud B <b-robson@gol.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
> 
>>jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>Apud B <b-robson@gol.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>>>
>>>>Bart Mathias is a dickhead.
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>G'day Bretto. Getting psyched up to vote for Howard again?   8-)}
> 
> 
>>Can't vote, been overseas too long :(
> 
> 
> What? Is it because you've been culled from the roll? My daughter's
> been in Pommgolia as long as you've been in Japan, and she's still
> on the electoral roll as living at our house.
> 
> AFAIK you can stay enrolled OS as long as you state an intention to return 
> within 6 years.
> 

Last election I didn't vote because I was in a remote part of Japan (on
topic) and so they took me off the list. Now I can't get back on the
roll until I return home. I can't join the putsch to outst the
reactionary establishment forces, but as my seat is Nth Sydney my
contribution doesn't count much whoever I vote for.