Voting Kilted

**Graham** · 23rd November 07, 05:48 AM

Tomorrow is the day Australia votes in the Federal elections. I've voted before while kilted, but this time one of the parties (Family First) has asked me to help out at the Polling Station.

I'm not sure if the candidate who invited me to do this actually knows I wear a kilt all the time, so...it will be interesting!

**James MacMillan** · 23rd November 07, 06:54 AM

I hope your candidate wins - surely if he has the backing of one kilted, he has a leg-up...

Politically speaking, I know we range from left and right with most in the middle. But I wonder what a true kilted political cause would be?

Sure we should all be for any measure that promotes Freedom and Comfort, but is there any one issue that all true kilted could and would get behind?

**McMurdo** · 23rd November 07, 07:05 AM

Have a good time, I voted kilted at the last election here and got nothing but positive responses from all the people there.

**Robert Lamb** · 23rd November 07, 08:23 AM

Here in Oregon we vote by mail so I could vote in the alltogether if I was a mind to.
Robert "the kilted" Lamb

**Nighthawk** · 23rd November 07, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by James MacMillan

I hope your candidate wins - surely if he has the backing of one kilted, he has a leg-up...

Politically speaking, I know we range from left and right with most in the middle. But I wonder what a true kilted political cause would be?

Sure we should all be for any measure that promotes Freedom and Comfort, but is there any one issue that all true kilted could and would get behind?

I think we need a National Scurvey Awareness Week. I'd vote for that. Or maybe a Ride Your Llama To Work Day. Llamas have nice soft wool, after all.

**cessna152towser** · 23rd November 07, 08:44 AM

I think the kilt will work well for you as a party supporter at the polling station. One of our local councillors regularly canvasses kilted at elections accompanied by his wee scotty dog. One of the few occasions when I wear trousers - as an election official there is a requirement not to wear any clothing which would imply any preference for one political party rather than another - a kilt would imply support for the Scottish Nationalists.

**Riverkilt** · 23rd November 07, 08:59 AM

Hey Graham,

What a great deal that is. Voting is so much fun (I'm kinda vocal..."Take that you rogue!" as I mark my ballot) but voting kilted is pure joy.

A couple years ago I did have an incident. My polling station is at a Methodist Church in town. Out in the parking lot was a Navajo lady in full Traditional Navajo dress who was doing research for a college paper she was doing on voting. She was standing just outside the signs for the 75 foot limit on campaigning. When I finished voting I stopped to talk with her.

While we were chatting, her in full Navajo garb, me in full kilt turnout, a very sourpuss old lady came charging out insisting that we were too close to the building. The voting area was inside and the doors closed but she was some sort of a poll watcher. We told her we weren't even talking politics. She didn't care. She insisted the 75 foot limit sign was too close to the building and we'd have to move back. So we did.

Then she went inside and got a guy with a tape measure to reposition the 75 limit sign. Turns out the sign we were beyond was about 175 feet out already and she had to move it way in toward the building. That was fun to watch.

Looking back, she was more than likely reacting to our "different" dress or was an outright racist towards the Navajo lady...but no way to know...maybe just a control freak.

Ron

**Tattoo Bradley** · 23rd November 07, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Turns out the sign we were beyond was about 175 feet out already and she had to move it way in toward the building. That was fun to watch.

HAHAHAHA! I bet that was a HOOT!

**James MacMillan** · 25th November 07, 04:28 PM

We volunteer my Lodge for voting, and one year we had some demonstrators. You should have seen them when this old, fat, bearded guy in a kilt came out to ask them to move.

They didn't know what to do, bottom line, is they just left. I never even got to find out what they were yelling about???

Reverse power of the kilt?

**TheKiltedWonder** · 25th November 07, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by James MacMillan

Politically speaking, I know we range from left and right with most in the middle. But I wonder what a true kilted political cause would be?

The Kilted Coalition's election platform:
1. Tax-breaks to kilt wearers
2. Strengthen the Dollar against the Pound
3. Tarrifs on Pakistani goods that would be used to subsidize the higher costs of Scottish goods.
4. Programs to increase wool-production nationwide
5. Grants for North American Textile firms weaving genuine tartans
6. Universal right to wear a sgian dubh
7. Updated labor laws that prevent the banning/discrimination of the kilt in public schools and in the work place.
8. Haggis as the national dish??

As for voting kilted, I almost did that recently; however I don't have a Scottish last name and was afraid of having to discuss that too thoroughly with the people I get the ballot from. Not that it mattered anyway, since a lack of challengers meant that literally 0 people on my ballot ran opposed, not that I'm bitter or anything. (Stephen Colbert tied for first place for one office with 3 votes). There were no choices, and people wonder why young people don't vote. Sorry for the off-topic ending; I wouldn't consider it political either, just depressing.