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How tf Americans don't have a holiday on voting day π
Russia just did three day voting on friday, saturday and sunday to make sure that both 9-5 and 2 over 2 could have a day off to vote. The downside is that it was very expensive as the staff gotta be paid more than thrice the amount, it was very taxing on volunteer observers, and ultimately useless as they've made up whatever numbers they wanted using the unverifyable electronic voting in the end.
Have have three voting days - FRI to SUN - in Czechia aswell, for each voting. I imagine it is the same window in other EU countries, because it just fucking makes sense.
EDIT: I misremembered, we have only FRI and SAT.
No, we don't, most elections are Friday(14-22) to Saturday(8-14).
I stand corrected. I must've forgotten since last time we had elections.
Are you seriously using Russia as a good example of democracy lmao
No, lmao, but can't deny Russia has some nice things, even though by having those it is shooting itself in the foot. Like 2012 elections where they've basically said "Look, we have the entire election committee in the bag - Π΅hey can draw us whatever results we want. But, let's try to legitimize those elections in the eyes of the people! Let's put a camera on every single polling station and let anyone watch them online, so that everyone can see how fair our elections are!". As you might imagine, during the election, all social medias got completely flooded by recordings of voting fraud... And yes, people instantly noticed that the price for those cameras was like 10x of their market value, with 90% of costs landing straight into government officials pockets...
We in the UK don't either. although polling is open from pretty early to pretty late and i have never ever seen a queue at a polling station so you're in and out in a couple minutes, even in local elections.
And postal voting is a thing
Because decent state governments have early voting for like a full month before the final Election Day. No single day off needed.
A large portion of the states, if not the majority, do not have decent state governments.
I mean ours in India are decently spread out by disctrict and they're all holidays in that area.