In 2013, a small group of geeks, including myself, began mapping the locations of sausage sizzles and cake stalls on election day. So far we’ve done this for the 2013 federal and West Australian state elections. We were interviewed briefly on ABC local radio. [brushes hair back heroically]
It turns out that these elections just keep coming. We have South Australia and Tasmania on Saturday, and WA again in three weeks. And we’re ready (unless I’m lying, but that hardly ever doesn’t happen).
We have a website — democracysausage.org — at which you can plan your route to the nearest sausage/cake-equipped polling booth, or just marvel at the distribution of democracy sausage purveyance.
We also have a Twitter account — @demsausage — and a hashtag — #democracysausage — with which you can notify us of new and wonderful democracy sausage and cake opportunities. And please do! This is how we collect the data to build our map.
So, let us know on election day, or before it, if you spot a sausage sizzle or cake stall, or if you’re helping to organise one.
(I should mention that, for the 2013 federal election, we were somewhat out-gunned by another, unaffiliated group whose website was/is electionsausagesizzle.com.au. We’re not sure if they’re planning anything this time around.)