For most Johannesburgers, elections are a strange thing, and for the first time in their lives, they have the right to participate in politics, which is a huge step forward from what it used to be, despite its many restrictions.

Most of the people here are Chinese Americans in Johannesburg, but they don't realize how important the ballots in their hands are, and many people are even reluctant to vote, thinking that it is a waste of time, or because of Roque's strict requirements, many Chinese Americans go to the polls and cast their sacred votes.

Anyway, most Chinese people don't care much about politics, they put all their energy on running their own farms, on how to make a good life for their families, and usually stay away from officials.

Therefore, overseas Chinese have never had a strong sense of political presence, and the Chinese are not good at using their political rights, which leads to the fact that many times, the interests of the Chinese will be ignored.

This will certainly not happen in Johannesburg, and a few months ago, Roque instructed Owen to organize people to promote the value of the "Holy Vote" to the Chinese in Johannesburg.

At this point, the Chinese are still very easy to communicate, although most of the Chinese still do not understand the things in the Liberal Party propaganda deeply, but they can still obey Roque's command and are willing to vote for the Liberal Party.

At 9 a.m., Philip, Owen, Marcus Beaufort and a number of senior officials from the city of Johannesburg dropped their ballot boxes in the largest polling station at the train station, in the presence of the media and Ade.

This is also a show, Roque has no voting rights as a soldier, and Xiao Si, a Rhodesian who also has no voting rights, is watching the excitement from the sidelines.

"Is this a witness to history?" Xiao Si has a sense of historical involvement.

"Of course, Johannesburg has entered a new era from today." Roque was in a very happy mood, in fact, this was not suitable for chatting, everyone was clapping with holy faces, only Roque and Xiao Si hid behind the crowd and chatted.

At this time, there was some noise on the street corner not far from the polling station, and Roque looked back to see that it was several large turbans arguing with the police.

At such times, any discordant voices had to be suppressed, so soon the military police came to support, and several turbans were taken away.

"It's Indians who are asking for voting rights, they think they are a high caste and should have the right to vote, it's really whimsical." Harry Spencer's expression was ugly, and there were still loopholes in the security plan, otherwise it would be impossible for these big turbans to get into the vicinity.

Harry Spencer used to work in India, and it was because he couldn't stand the Indian environment that he applied for a transfer from India to Johannesburg, and he didn't have the slightest affection for Indians.

It is also well known that Roque does not like Indians, the total number of Indians in Johannesburg is no more than 5,000, and most of them are still mining in the mines, they are not Johannesburgers at all, and they are usually unwilling to pay taxes, but now they want to fight for voting rights, which is a joke.

Roque's vigilance of Indians is also for this reason, Britain is now counting the population, in fact, India is also included in the statistics, also as a populous country, India has a population potential no less than the Qing State, because of the special relationship between Britain and India, Britain is actually from India to obtain human resources simpler.

Johannesburg's miners' dislike of using Indians has a lot to do with Indians' poor labor efficiency.

In most cases, the efficiency of Indian miners is not as good as that of Africans, who are hard-working representatives in this era, but Indians call themselves "British" and demand special treatment everywhere, so the mine owners in Johannesburg will turn their attention to the Chinese in the Qing Kingdom.

"Indians want to have the right to vote unless they can also have a baron among them." Little Si laughed, it didn't sound good, but it was true.

Ade and Philip didn't stay at the scene for long, they voted and took photos, and Philip and Ade and a group of high-ranking officials went to the De Beers Hotel to attend the celebratory banquet.

It's amazing, the election is not over yet, the statistics have not yet appeared, and now there is a celebration banquet, and Roque can only say: I wish you all a good time!

Roque is also responsible for maintaining order, so he can't leave yet.

In front of the polling station, the Socialist Party workers were still desperately trying to convince voters to vote for the Socialists.

This effort is doomed to be futile, the vast majority of voters will vote for the Liberal Party, many voters have never heard of the Socialist Party before this, and the majority of Chinese in Johannesburg cannot read English, and their ballots are filled out under the guidance of the Liberal Party staff, and they will certainly not be filled in incorrectly.

Arnold and Owen were also there, but the two of them certainly wouldn't end up in person, and there was little communication between the two.

"Harry, you stay here, I'll take a look elsewhere." Roque didn't want to stay here and watch the excitement, and with this time, Roque would rather find a place to rest.

It's been so busy these days that Roque doesn't even have time to go home.

"Don't worry, I'll leave it to me." Harry Spencer is full of energy.

In fact, there is nothing to worry about, every polling station has a squad of soldiers, and a squad of commandos responsible for maintaining law and order, anyone who wants to make trouble will be thrown into prison for reflection, and they will not be dealt with until after the election, such as the Indians who made trouble just now, it is estimated that it will take a while for them to leave the prison.

The entire poll lasts for a day, starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m.

The Election Commission will count the votes overnight, which will be supervised by the London Inspectorate to ensure that the results of the election are fair and valid, and the 35 seats in the upcoming Johannesburg Parliament will be determined by the Election Committee to determine the proportion of seats allocated to the Parliament.

What made Roque very unhappy was that, according to the opinion of the monitoring team, even if the Liberals had a strong advantage, the Liberals could only get 70 percent of the parliamentary seats, and the remaining seats should be won by other parties.

This is to prevent the Liberal Party from dominating Parliament, which is currently the case in Johannesburg, and if the seats in Parliament are really allocated according to the election results, then the Liberal Party may really get all the seats, and then Johannesburg's democratic representative system will become a joke.

The biggest winner was undoubtedly the Socialist Party, but Roark was quick to react when he learned of the plan, and almost overnight, several political parties emerged in Johannesburg, all of them to disperse the seats.

Roque was very busy on this day, there were ten polling places in Johannesburg, and the remaining twenty polling places were in towns around Johannesburg.

The situation is still good, everything is going well, all the polling places are in order, no one dares to jump out and make trouble at this time, the umbrella company has played a huge role, and all the company's security personnel have been dispatched, they are temporarily hired by the election committee.

At 5 p.m., all polling places closed punctually, boxes containing ballots were returned to Johannesburg under military police escort, and the staff of the Electoral Commission began counting ballots overnight.

"Sir, you should go and get some rest." Harry Spencer is a little worried about Roque's state, Roque has been a little excited all day today, and now his eyes are bloodshot.

"It's okay, the two of us are going to be busy all night today, and no one can rest until the election results come out." Roque was insisting, and the coffee had already been drunk in a large pot.

"I hope they'll move faster—" lamented Harry Spencer, who was also nervous about the day.

In the days when there were no computers, the efficiency of counting election results was very low, and the staff of the election committee were in groups of four, one person counted votes, one person recorded, and two people were responsible for supervising to prevent errors, and more than 100 people worked at the same time in the entire warehouse, and the sound was very noisy.

As for the staff of the inspection team, who were supposed to supervise the scene, they were still attending the dinner, and it is uncertain whether they will come to perform their work.

At ten o'clock in the evening, before the statistics were over, Harry Spencer couldn't bear it at first and went to the temporary rest room next to him to rest.

Roque continued to stare at the scene, and at this time, Roque's companion had been replaced by Owen.

"There are already three polling points that have been counted, which is not much different from what we predicted, and 90% of the votes have been voted for our Liberal Party, and this time we have won!" Owen was also very excited, he was now wearing only a white shirt, the cuffs were tucked up to the elbows, and the buttons at the neckline were open, such a raunchy look rarely appeared in Owen.

Owen came to Roque with a bottle of wine, and although Roque knew it was out of place, he toasted with Owen.

"Don't be too happy, no one should be careless until the final statistics are available." Roque was very cautious at this time, and the closer he was to victory, the more likely he was to have surprises.

Sure enough, at two o'clock in the morning, the statistics of polling place 9 showed that the Socialists had surpassed the Liberals in terms of vote.

"Count it again." Roque's face was gloomy, although this result could not change the final result, but it was still not normal for this result to appear.

"Yes Lord—" The four staff members in charge of the statistics trembled and started all over again, and both Owen and Harry Spencer were alarmed and supervised with Roque.

It seems that the statistics are not wrong, and it is true that the Socialists received a higher share of the vote than the Liberals, with about five out of every ten votes going to the Socialists, four to the Liberals, and one to the other parties.

This result seems normal, at least in terms of the distribution of votes, but Roque does not think so, and Roque knows very well what the Socialist Party is.

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