'Happy voting': country bake sales warm up rural voters

'Happy voting': country bake sales warm up rural voters

Country voters have been rewarded with bake sale classics like sponge cakes with lashings of fresh whipped cream,...

The Old-School Cake That Was Created To Encourage Voters - The Takeout

Women who couldn't vote used to bring this type of cake to the polling booths to encourage voting, and sometimes sway a vote or two.

‘Happy voting’: country bake sales warm up rural voters

When Australia’s first prime minister Edmund Barton took office in 1901, the little school in Borenore had already been teaching rural kids for 25 years. On Saturday, voters in the central western NSW village braved a 12C morning to cast their ballots at the historic school to help form the 48th parliament. The polling place, nestled between wineries and apple orchards outside Orange, typically attracts about 300 votes. Voters arrive to cast th…