Democracy sausage

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Democracy sausages are sausages wrapped in slices of bread bought from a sausage sizzle operated as a fundraiser at many Australian polling places on election day, often to raise money for the institutions that host the polling place (such as schools, churches and community centres). In 2016, 1,992 polling booths (just under one-third of those across Australia) had a sausage stand by the count of the Election Sausage Sizzles website. Fundraising stalls have been present at polling booths since at least the 1920s, there being a photograph showing a cake stall in front of a booth at the time. The sale of sausages began appearing in the early 1980s as portable barbecue grills became available. The first use of the phrase "democracy sausage" on social media was in the lead-up to the 2013 Western Australian state election, but the phrase was probably in spoken use before. In the 2010s, the democracy sausage had become so well recognised in Australian culture that in the 24 hours leading up to...

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