Jeffry Degrande

Had a lot of fun watching Brazil vote today.  As Brazilians usually do, they made a big party of it.  You can’t vote without having a churrasquinho and some afterwards. I’m down with that.  Even though bars had to stay closed, the beer brands did well today.

I became rather frustrated with the pre-election campaigns.  I’m not used to the kind of spam and nonsense each candidate is stuffing down the throats of their voters.

They put your mailbox full with crap and call you at home.  Or run a parade through your street at 8am in the morning.  Big speakers screaming their candidate’s number mixed with samba.

Glad we got that behind us.

Anyway, enough rambling. To tell you the truth, I was actually quite impressed. Voting closed at 17:00. The news at 19:00 reported 73% of the votes in Belo Horizonte already had been counted. 70% nationally. 2 hours is pretty damned fast.

By midnight the results will be in and when I wake up tomorrow morning someone will probably already have cleaned the mess in our street.

The mess created when I voted last time back home still hasn’t been cleaned up.