I can never understand how the United States all managed to get their elections so incredibly fucked up.
Here, the electoral roll is the same roll used for jury selection.
Non-citizen residents, Resident EU-Citizens, Resident British Citizens and Irish Citizens have different electoral rights. They know who you're allowed vote for - or if your allowed vote - when you go to the poll.
Irish Citizens abroad are not allowed vote - this is to keep Irish Americans from Making Ireland Great Again. The objective is to make sure Trump voters are not able to vote in the Presidential Election.
When you go to the poll, you need some form of ID. But it's almost materially impossible to not have any form of accepted ID for voting. Everything from Drivers License to your benefits card, student card, utility bill, etc....
You go to a specific location inside the polling station for your area - especially for dense urban areas.
There is a cop in the polling station who is watching.
Polling stations are in local primary schools - usually. They close for the day to facilitate.
You go to the person in the polling station and get your ballot - it's validated using a punch press to confirm its a real ballot, and your name is marked off the list as 'yes, this person voted'.
The quantity of ballots handed out is tallied.
Go to the booth - and what happens in there is between you and the ballot.
You vote for who you want, who you'll accept if who you want doesn't win, and who you'll grudgingly tolerate all the way down to the last few dregs who you never want anywhere the rings of power so you leave their box blank.
If you make a mistake - the poll attendant marks the ballot as spoiled and gives you a fresh one which is also validated.
Both the spoiled ballot, and the legitimate ballot go into the box so that the tally of 'Ballots out' matches 'Ballots in'
The boxes are all locked until they get to the counting centre
Ballots are hand tallied and counted.
Candidate are eliminated or elected as it is deemed impossible for them to be elected, or they reach the minimum quota of votes to be elected off transfered preference votes, *or* they run out of votes to count.
The maximum possible number of counts in any one constituency will be the Number of Candidates, minus the Number of seats. This leads to our American interns being confused by such items as 'The 17th Count' in the morning news.
Only recently have their been any attempts to impugn the integrity of this ossified process. Usually by the screeching rightists trying to apply the Trump playbook in a different country.
The government tried electronic voting once - spent millions to store the machines for a decade or more - and then promptly went back to paper and the drama of the counts.
It can sometimes take a week to get a result, but the result also rarely involves a judge, there's no opportunities for chads to dance to Danny Deever.
Here, the electoral roll is the same roll used for jury selection.
Non-citizen residents, Resident EU-Citizens, Resident British Citizens and Irish Citizens have different electoral rights. They know who you're allowed vote for - or if your allowed vote - when you go to the poll.
Irish Citizens abroad are not allowed vote - this is to keep Irish Americans from Making Ireland Great Again. The objective is to make sure Trump voters are not able to vote in the Presidential Election.
When you go to the poll, you need some form of ID. But it's almost materially impossible to not have any form of accepted ID for voting. Everything from Drivers License to your benefits card, student card, utility bill, etc....
You go to a specific location inside the polling station for your area - especially for dense urban areas.
There is a cop in the polling station who is watching.
Polling stations are in local primary schools - usually. They close for the day to facilitate.
You go to the person in the polling station and get your ballot - it's validated using a punch press to confirm its a real ballot, and your name is marked off the list as 'yes, this person voted'.
The quantity of ballots handed out is tallied.
Go to the booth - and what happens in there is between you and the ballot.
You vote for who you want, who you'll accept if who you want doesn't win, and who you'll grudgingly tolerate all the way down to the last few dregs who you never want anywhere the rings of power so you leave their box blank.
If you make a mistake - the poll attendant marks the ballot as spoiled and gives you a fresh one which is also validated.
Both the spoiled ballot, and the legitimate ballot go into the box so that the tally of 'Ballots out' matches 'Ballots in'
The boxes are all locked until they get to the counting centre
Ballots are hand tallied and counted.
Candidate are eliminated or elected as it is deemed impossible for them to be elected, or they reach the minimum quota of votes to be elected off transfered preference votes, *or* they run out of votes to count.
The maximum possible number of counts in any one constituency will be the Number of Candidates, minus the Number of seats. This leads to our American interns being confused by such items as 'The 17th Count' in the morning news.
Only recently have their been any attempts to impugn the integrity of this ossified process. Usually by the screeching rightists trying to apply the Trump playbook in a different country.
The government tried electronic voting once - spent millions to store the machines for a decade or more - and then promptly went back to paper and the drama of the counts.
It can sometimes take a week to get a result, but the result also rarely involves a judge, there's no opportunities for chads to dance to Danny Deever.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.