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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Where I live, your name and residential address is confirmed by a registrar before you are given the ballot paper. This prevents duplicity or incorrect voting. If you live in a new area but failed to update you previous residential address, therefore can’t be found, you vote under the old address and area once they can find you in that registry. If no details match or can be found, you don’t get to vote.

    Not accounting for queue time, the former takes a minute, the latter takes about three as you have to go to another part of the booths where other national registrars attempt to locate and confirm you.



  • I work in statistics and we never use girl of woman, only female. The line is vastly different in age and meaning depending on culture, religion, law, or heritage. Even in western societ, 13, 16, 18, and 21 are all valid before tipping to 40, 50, 60, 65, 68, and 70 where the term can be prefixed with some form of adjective.

    It’s old-fashioned. Just say female and every culture/society understands you without confusion or insult. Save you embarassing/insulting people while travelling too.