National election day in Chile today. Every person of eligible voting age is required to vote in this country or you are assessed a monetary fine. If you don't pay your fine you can't cash your pay check, register your car, renew your drivers license, or a myriad of other inconveniences. Needless to say every one that is registered has to vote, although there are a few unregistered citizens. Can you imagine how that system would be in Canada or the United States.
Today we did a city bus tour and then we walked down to a local park for a while. Because of the election all the stores were closed, a lot of the town square was closed and as a result the city was quite quiet.
This evening we went to a fancy restaurant for dinner. On election day no alcohol can be sold or served, but because this was a private function and we are not Chilean citizens we were allowed to have wine with our dinner. Weren't we lucky!!
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