Counting envelopes

before counting votes
the remaining envelopes
need ascertaining

Sunday was the first round of our presidential election. 12 candidates, the first two to qualify for the second and last round, in two weeks' time.

I voted early in the morning and went back to the polling station at 7 pm for the counting. There were a dozen of us, and we were dispatched into various activities: opening the envelopes, reading the enclosed ballot (our mayor, seen at the back of the photo, in the mask, did this), ticking the votes... I was one of the three persons who ticked off the votes on a dedicated sheet of paper. Luckily, all three of us found the same number of votes for each of the candidates, so we didn't need to do a recount. :-D Mind you, with only just over 120 ballots, it wouldn't have taken us long to do it again!

Voting is not mandatory in France, so we were quite happy to see that about 90% of registered voters had cast a ballot. The overall result in our station was not what it was nationwide.

We now have two weeks to reflect and decide on whom we will elect for five years. There is decidedly one option I cannot choose - as for the other, well...