I see a *lot* of the people on my flist despairing at people's fuckheadedness, to which I just want to say: Dude! People here (not the press, to my disappointment and horror!) are shaking their heads and saying stuff like 'what? is it some kind of third world country or something? what do you mean not enough ballots, software errors, voter
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Over here, too. My dad and I were discussing the 2000 election a while ago, and we agreed that the American system of how to collect and count the votes is just strange. All those punchcards that had to be looked over twice where the hole actually was, and now the computers that didn't even print something out, so you had no control that your vote actually was counted (or counted for the right person). When we're electing our parliament, we get a long ballot with all the parties on it and a big fat circle in front of each one where we make our cross. I haven't heard of anybody complaining about that yet. And, what the fuck, standing in line for three hours to go vote? No wonder that their turnout is so low. The longest I've ever waited to vote was half a minute!
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