Samuel
ballot drop boxes sound legitimately insane to me. what do you mean you leave your vote in a trashcan on the street
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Jaz
this is what you get when people can't take time off of work to vote because there's no national pressure to give workers time to vote 🙃
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Samuel
oh yeah that's insane thing number two, you have a fixed date for voting yet it's not a holiday??
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
yes. I mean in previous elections there's been insane queues etc in some places so it can be quite a time-consuming activity to vote in person that is legitimately impossible for people who have to work
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
In the last election here, people in one neighborhood waited until 2-3am in a queue to vote, even though voting hours technically ended at 9pm (but you could vote if you were in the queue by then) 😅
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hailey
the insane thing here is that you all call this a "queue"! no no no no its a line!!!!!!!!!
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jack
a line? it’s a queue on spotify do they call it a line? no it’s a queue 😎
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deprimida ou apenas brasileira? 🌸
With eletronic voting machines I've never ever had to wait more than 5 minutes to vote. In the election this last Sunday I arrived, they checked my document, took a biometric fingerprint, I voted, and I left the room in less than 2 min.
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jack
WHAT at that point i’d just give up.. what’s one vote’s difference gonna make?! (but in the US one it seems fairly tight)..
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
It was a super important election, because it was a matter of whether we defeat the right-wing govt after 8 years and start fixing things, or they win once again and become entrenched even more… and this was in a big city and people there voting at night were mostly young, so almost all center/left.
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
It could have possibly ended up with a couple of MPs difference, so every vote mattered in a way. But they had fun there, some local company was delivering pizza etc. :D
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jack
Ooh that’s nice actually, not too bad in my head it’s just pushing, shoving, shouting …. in a big city at least America sounds pretty scary during election time.. especially swing states, imagine conflicts between ppl..
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Fa6le
Living in a swing state is hell. I've gotten 14 political texts today. There was a bus with trumps face on it sitting outside of my work all shift. Any media I try to consume is covered in political ads. I genuinely can't get away from it besides sitting at home and reading a book.
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Fa6le
And I am a political science major. I ENJOY politics. But this isn't politics, it's like if the super bowl lasted 2 months.
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jack
fair enough but i wish that was here, but afaict where i live elections are wayyyyyyyy chiller in the UK than US
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