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If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th???? (self.showerthoughts)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's odd. In the UK the lines are never long. We don't get time off, but you can find time to drop in to the polling station anyway since they're open 7-22. Our counting and decision is decided overnight and the prime minister may change the day after that

[โ€“] kameecoding 1 points 2 months ago

It's the same in my country, but we have voting district thats like under a 1000 people.

I an guessing with the gerrymandered US districts they get quite weird and lots of people vote in the same place