Scene of operations.

I'll start with something that has nothing to do with this picture! This evening we listened to the final three episodes of "The Spy who came in from the Cold", (TSWCIFTC) by John le Carré.  The Swedish Radio used a new translation to produce this spoken book. Even though I've read the book at least twice, and seen the film, I still found the book (even in Swedish) totally captivating. John le Carré is such a good writer. Coincidentally I had just started reading "A Legacy of Spies" as the radio version of TSWCIFTC started up. The newer book, published in 2017, has its main character looking back to the events of TSWCIFTC and providing back story - a sort of sequel and prequel combined. Considering how complicated the plots are, only a real master could have made all this comprehensible! John le Carre, we miss you!!

From here I'm writing a long and probably boring description of all the sorting and counting and sorting some more that I did today, standing at one of those tables in the library. I think it's mostly diary, for me, so don't feel you need to read it all!

Job 1 - Counting the envelopes (contsaining the votes) that came in yesterday, and the few that came in in the first hour of today.
Job 2 - Choose a voting station (I got number 4 - Brännan) and check the number of envelopes that came in each day. Were they actually for that voting station? Are the numbers correct? I found one that shoulöd have gone to Geresta (number 5), passed it on and reduced my stations votes by 1. The numbers were correct.
Job 3 - Sort the envelopes into number order, which is actually age of the voter. Voter number 1 is the oldest voter in the area. In my area voter 1320 was the youngest. Sorting about 600 votes into order takes a fair while and a surprising amount of concentration, but at the same time it's almost meditative.
We worked from 11 o'clock until about 3:30 and then we were done.
Tomorrow all those envelopes I sorted will go to polling station 4. The workers there will tick off each envelope in their list of voters. The fact they are sorted into order makes their job much easier. When the polling station closes at 20:00 the advance votes can be taken from the envelopes and placed in the correst box, together with all the votes that came in on the actual day. Then counting can begin...
Any voter who voted in advance can go to their polling station and ask for their evnvelope back, if they have changed their minds, which is why the envelopes can't be opened until voting has finished.
After tomorrow the die are cast!