Australia is having a federal election on Saturday 18th of May. Two interesting facts about elections in Australia:
Elections are always held on a Saturday.
Voting in elections is compulsory.
As voting is compulsory, there is always a big turnout for elections and many polling booth venues use election day as a great opportunity for fundraising. As Aussies love a fundraising barbecue sausage sizzle, this has led to the creation of an election day tradition –
the Democracy Sausage!
Having a Democracy Sausage is seen as a way of both supporting polling booth facilities, which are often held at places that need extra money such as schools, community halls and churches, and as a reward to citizens for being forced to go out and vote. Having a tasty hot sausage in your possession goes a long way to alleviating the boredom of standing in a queue. Well organised polling booths can even take your order while you are waiting in line.
In its basic form a Democracy Sausage is a meat sausage served on a slice of white bread. Grilled onions and tomato sauce are optional extras. Some places may offer a variety of sausages, sauces and optional extras. There are even places that cater for gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan patrons. In addition to sausage sizzles, many booths also have cake stalls selling a variety of sweets.
Having a Democracy Sausage on election day has become such an important part of the experience that there are now websites which offer information on which polling booths are having a sausage sizzle and what they offering so you can choose where to go to vote. Now that’s what I call democracy!
vsomethingspeaks 
What a great idea a Democracy sausage. Next election I’m having one thankyou.
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Some places ran out of sausages and there were almost riots!
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