(11-04-2024, 07:44 PM)Dartz Wrote: I can never understand how the United States all managed to get their elections so incredibly fucked up.
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.
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There is a cop in the polling station who is watching.
Oooh, is the cop there to interrogate people who look like illegals? What if they're just black, can they intimidate 'em too? Remember America has a whole different set of baggage, and having police present at the polls would make a huge swath of the population feel unsafe here. Only half of Americans feel confident in the police.
Meanwhile in America we literally let Americans in orbit vote. Honestly Ireland seems like it has slightly conservative voting laws overall. In America, it's like, well, imagine I compared the voting laws in Denmark, Italy, Ireland, and Hungary, and pretended it was all the same place. It's a whole continent of different places and rules. We have always thousands of soldiers deployed around the world. There are some places in California where you might live a kilometer in elevation away from the nearest polling place, and if the snow has begun it might mean that from your town to the county elections office becomes a hundred mile drive via the nearest open mountain pass.
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