The Average Voter
So she was considering her own mind (as well as she could, for the warm tube journey to get to the poling station had made her feel very sleepy and stupid) how long it would take to get to the front of the queue and therefore, how long she had left to decide on who to vote for, when suddenly she noticed the Average voter with all his normalities at the front of the queue.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Average voter say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Average voter actually took a watch out of its waistcoat - pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on towards the booth, Alice started for it had flashed across her mind that she had never before seen the actual Average Voter with either a waistcoat- pocket, or a watch to take out of it.
“If I knew what the Average Voter was voting for, that would be incredibly helpful” thought Alice “I could pop along and ask him or even glance at his ballot if I sneak into the booth after him.”
She stepped forward, squeezing past the other members of the queue who were waiting patiently in line whispering “excuse me” as she went. The suited queue let her squeeze past, mostly because they had never been queue jumped before and were taken quite by surprise. Alice was fortunate enough to get to the front just in time to see the Average Voter step into one of the private booths and behind a curtain, behind her a line of scowls and frowns stretched, not that she had noticed.
The usher dealt with the complaints from those Alice had queue jumped in front of, whipping out his complaints file and opening it in the hope to avoid a riot Alice stepping in after the Average Voter. However instead of finding the true answer to the question of the vote Alice found herself falling down the Votehole. Down went Alice after the Average Voter, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The Votehole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep Votehole.
