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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly I cannot understand why elections are so difficult in the USA. I am from Italy, a much less than well organized country with a population that is a 5th of the USA. there is no absentee voting, no weeks of early voting and no electronic machines of any kind. people vote normally on a Sunday, sometimes Sunday and the following Monday.

I was never in line for more than 20-30 minutes in the 25 years i voted there. the ballots are all paper ballots that are put in a box by the voter. when the polls close, the boxes are opened and the paper ballots are counted and the vote registered one by one, manually. normally the polls close around 9pm and results are in by the following morning. how the heck we can do something like that and the USA can't? how come the USA cannot have enough voting places so people are not in line for 5-6 hours? how come the USA cannot have enough people to count the paper votes? [/quote]

1) we vote on a tuesday because voter suppression
2) we don't have enough drop boxes because voter suppression
3) we don't have enough polling places in heavily urban areas because voter suppression
4) we use electronic voting because the machines are hackable and thus votes changeable with no paper record.

Does that answer your question?[/quote]

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