Provincial Elections

Its election time in Ontario, and I have a funny storry for you. I am 20 years old, and this year was the first in which I participated in a vote. Being in Windsor for school, I was a bit far from home, so I went to an advanced voting station. Now, I had never voted before, and the two old ladies handeling all the paper work (there were AT LEAST 100 years between the two of them) were VERY intimidating :P Anyway, I filled out my forms that alow me to vote here, and proceded to the voting 'booth' (actually just a cardboard box on a table) with the folded balot hot in my hand. Here is where all the speaches about 'you CAN make a difference' and 'don't let others make your decisions for you' flashed through my mind. And I was feeling pretty good about myself, thinking that I was finnaly adding my say. All untill I opened the balot. Can they MAKE these things any less clear? On the balot, which was black, were 5 or 6 names in white with big white circles beside them. What is so hard about this, you ask? I had no idea who these people were! I had never voted before, and I had no idea what to expect! If they had put the candidates for premurs names on the thing, then I would have understood, but I didn't know anything about ridings and whatnot! All I knew was the party I wanted to vote for; I didn't want to take a degree in political science to do so! So in the end, I put it all up to random chance and through an X down. It ends up that it was liberal, who knew? oh well. You can laugh if you want (I know I do:P). You could say that If I wanted to make a vote, then it should have been an informed vote anyway, and that my not even knowing how to fill out the ballot is not a good indication that I have such a vote. And I would say to you: oh well. Maby next(X4) year :P