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It comes to voting? Huge masses of people waiting hour after hour to vote. It reminds me of countries like Libya or Egypt, which is fair enough. It's the first time those countries have had the chance to vote in free elections.
Personally, voting has never taken me more one minute from entering the polling station to leaving. You do it on the way to the shops, you don't have to set half a day aside.
Personally, voting has never taken me more one minute from entering the polling station to leaving. You do it on the way to the shops, you don't have to set half a day aside.
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Takes me a matter of seconds to vote at home.
In the villages around here people make an event of it, by wearing their "Sunday Best" and walking (that's a must) to the village hall. |
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Each state is broadly responsible for how it conducts its vote, including the running costs. Some states have deliberately made it very difficult and at the very least time consuming for some subsections of the population to vote in the past - most notoriously Florida in 2000 and 2004.
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Good point, Aunty. Voting is the only occasion on which walking without a dog is socially acceptable among rural dwellers.
Anywhere else, even 50 yards to church on Sunday morning, has to be done by car, or you'll be marked out for ever more as at best a bit odd or at worst a townie. |
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Probably the correct answer from History Maker, which makes it all the more disappointing when the US is so quick to criticise other countries when it comes to questions of democracy. In my village the polling station has been moved from the village hall to the new community centre. So sadly I have decided to remove myself from the democratic process and will no longer cast my vote. It would not feel the same after some many years of scrawling my cross on the ballot paper held against the wall next to the photo of the 1937 cup winning team. My uncle Harry proudly sitting in the front row with his knees on show. He had a good pair of knees probably the best in the family.
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