TheBookworm on Nostr: Things Australians find weird/curious/different about US Elections: * They are held ...
Things Australians find weird/curious/different about US Elections:
* They are held on a weekday (seriously what the?)
* In some states you can register to vote on the day
* You need ID to vote in many places
* The whole election is not run by an independent electoral commission (that has transparency and ensures consistency across states)
* Votes aren’t the same standardised paper ballots across the country but a random selection of different methods eg electronic in some places
* You can have a mix of first past the post and ranked choice voting (preferential voting?) based on each states choice in a federal election
* You have an ‘Electoral College’ which you can explain to us a million times and we will understand but simultaneously not understand
* You don’t have to vote (or at least make an effort and turn up to get your name crossed off)
*You don’t have Democracy sausage sizzles and an app or map that tells you which polling booths have them.
Hope you had a fun election day!
* They are held on a weekday (seriously what the?)
* In some states you can register to vote on the day
* You need ID to vote in many places
* The whole election is not run by an independent electoral commission (that has transparency and ensures consistency across states)
* Votes aren’t the same standardised paper ballots across the country but a random selection of different methods eg electronic in some places
* You can have a mix of first past the post and ranked choice voting (preferential voting?) based on each states choice in a federal election
* You have an ‘Electoral College’ which you can explain to us a million times and we will understand but simultaneously not understand
* You don’t have to vote (or at least make an effort and turn up to get your name crossed off)
*You don’t have Democracy sausage sizzles and an app or map that tells you which polling booths have them.
Hope you had a fun election day!