Blue/Black Fingers (or we know what you've been doing).

One of the interesting off-shoots of the election, which was no doubt unintended, was the colour of people's fingers once they'd voted. To ensure there was no foul play, the people who organized the elections obviously bought some seriously strong ink, which would quite literally leave its mark on the proceedings. The ink would really stain peoples' fingers, and hence everyone who voted wandered round for the rest of the day (and probably for the rest of the week) with a blue/black finger. (T. spoke to one man who had managed to removed the ink - after scrubbing for half an hour with bleach!!!) While this was no doubt unintended, it provided a very visible signifier of who had participated in the democratic process and who hadn't.