Voted Out

It's that time of year when the "democratic process" raises it's head. So all of us whipped out our respective voting ids and off we trotted to the designated polling booth. The choice of candidates was much debated, their various merits, demerits and poll promises chewed over, until we each thought we know how we would vote.

Out came the voter lists, names got matched to id cards, fingernails were dabbed with indelible ink, and votes were cast. Everyone else's but mine, that is.

For my name, it seemed, did not appear on any voter list. This, after it having been on there for atleast 9 years.

No amount of searching helped, the name was nowhere to be found. So I had to return, with no choice but to abstain from choosing.

One can only wonder how many more willing and discerning voters had been sent home because they fell through the holes of our great democratic sieve!