• Thisfox
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    1 year ago

    This one mystified me a bit. Why should we only get 35 minutes in which to vote? Then I realised you meant usually the queue was hours long in your country. Still seems pretty bizarre.

    We have compulsory voting here (rich people can afford the fine, but if you’re less rich like me, it isn’t worth it to not vote) and so everyone votes, pretty much, but the two weeks they give you to get a vote in at a before-the-cutoff seem pretty normal to me, and there’s always postal votes if you aren’t able to go in for two weeks and can’t afford the fine. Why not just open up the voting to a longer amount of time? Then you could go in after work one day to prevote in the two designated weeks like we do.