A week ago was my first ever voting that I could attend. And I did. The voting process happened very fast. This year in the Czech Republic has voting for (komunálu) local elections and in some regions even for the Senate, that was my case. I did not bring the voting paper with me, so I got an unfilled paper to fill behind a wall. I got a large paper with all the political sides (more than two parties, imagine that, America) problem was that I had to put the large paper into the envelope. That took me the most time since I already knew how to vote.

Since in the first round of the Senate there was no candidate that had more than 50 per cent. Next week there was another round. It was from Friday to Saturday till 2:00 PM. Since I was not at home that day, I was sad that I would not be attending the voting process. But I managed to get to the local bus stop at 1:30 PM, next bus that was in the direction I wanted was in an hour and a half. In that moment I was pretty hopeless. But thanks to shared bikes, I was able to share one and use it to get to another part of the city in time for voting, all 10 minutes before. The irony is that a week before that was the first time I have ever tried shared bikes. My town pays for the first 15 minutes of the ride. And it took me 15 minutes and 18 seconds. So it cost me around 1 dollar.

That reminded me of what Zohran Mamdani said. What I remember him saying was something like ‘I want to give an option to my critics to use a bus to travel and debate me’.

In the voting booth it was again given to me paper to choose from. And I am 99% certain that I got only one voting paper and one envelope by mistake. Logically I was supposed to get at least two voting papers. I did not say that to the commission because I got the paper that I wanted.