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Non US citizens, what's the weirdest thing about USA elections, compared to elections in your country? (sopuli.xyz)

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For me it is the concept of registering to vote. I am citizen so I have the right to vote automatically and only thing I need to provide is some accepted ID.

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[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Electoral college is weird AF

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0065

It was just added because it was the only way to launder slave votes for slave states, if you did it 1 vote per person then who got to choose who the slaves voted for?

We need to fix it, but there's no way in hell they'll give up their most precious possession, no matter how wrong it is.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That might have been revolutionary in 1776, and cut it in 1950, but its the 21st C — as long as the electoral college exists the US should not be viewed as more than a pseudo-democracy at best.

this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024

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