The Chinese boy walked into Union House with cheerful yelling from all of us, iUnion people, Synergy people. He was the last voter today, and the last voter of this year.
I was supposed to help iUnion for this whole week. However, I got to work at Tue and Wed, and had a conference on Thursday with cropping farmers up in a place I have never heard of in Victoria which is four hour away drive from Melbourne where I had free lunch and knocked into a lot of people whom I didn't suppose to meet up there.
So I only campaigned on Monday and Friday, the former was raining, the latter is windy. But Chester the endeavor overcame all odds and successfully made it there.
By 'made it', what I mean is I got a lot of people voted for us, or at least they said so. Monday I was standing in front of Union House and it was lunch time. A lot of friends and acquaintances were walking through the scenic professor walk to buy food, or drink but it was not a big difference. So I waived to them dramatically and in most scenarios it was easy because of the so called 'peer pressure'. Some people came over to Union House all the way up from law building in the pour and asked me where to vote when they saw my T-shirt. I must say we campaigned successfully on Xiaonei and Facebook.
Then I was just away from uni for three days at least at day time (I had to use Internet from uni at night because there's not yet in my place), during which I've heard a lot about things happening. When I returned to Union House at Friday, things are different. Most people claimed they have already voted when being caught by a campaigner. I firmly believe most of them don't. But you can't just point out. At least they are not voting for our enemies.
There were some dirty games within the campaign. Photos, lies, I've seen a couple of them. But in general, from my perspective, it was quite a clean campaign. At least there was no betray, no fighting, no cursing....
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