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Trump's Second Term

PitPat said:
Where there is no mail-in, voters can only go to their designated polling place. You can't shop around, so to speak, as I understand it.
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Why can't you attend any polling station, at least in the same state?! What if you are out of town? Or out of state? What if the polling station is overrun by official Nazi obstructionists?
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Things can only go downhill for Trump, and he will become more visibly unhinged.
Hopefully Republicans will take their cue and jump ship right after the Midterms.
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That's the thing. We are seeing the best and most competent Trump we are going to see. He's only going to get worse and more erratic.

He's going to make increasingly damaging decisions until he is stopped. And it's clear that there is almost nothing that will prompt the Republicans in government to invoke the 25th Amendment, so that will be physical incapacity.
 
Norman Alexander said:
Why can't you attend any polling station, at least in the same state?! What if you are out of town? Or out of state? What if the polling station is overrun by official Nazi obstructionists?
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In the UK you only have one polling station you can use, and they are very local. It's why we've never needed photo ID. The process is that you go into the polling station (with or without your polling card) you'll go to the table designated usually by your postcode, you give them your name and address (and now show "photo ID") they look for you on the list, rule out your name and hand you your voting paper. These days you can also do it by post. I still prefer to do it in person.
 
Darat said:
In the UK you only have one polling station you can use, and they are very local. It's why we've never needed photo ID. The process is that you go into the polling station (with or without your polling card) you'll go to the table designated usually by your postcode, you give them your name and address (and now show "photo ID") they look for you on the list, rule out your name and hand you your voting paper. These days you can also do it by post. I still prefer to do it in person.
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*stunned*

Absentee ballot - Wikipedia

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In Australia the term "absentee ballot" refers specifically to the procedure used when a voter attends a voting place which is not in the electoral district in which they are registered to vote. Instead of marking the ballot paper and putting it in the ballot box, the voter's ballot paper is placed in an envelope and then it is sent by the voting official to the voter's home district to be counted there.
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Norman Alexander said:
Why can't you attend any polling station, at least in the same state?! What if you are out of town? Or out of state? What if the polling station is overrun by official Nazi obstructionists?
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Never mind. Darat explained it very well. Very much the same in the U.S.
 
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Norman Alexander said:
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Absentee ballot - Wikipedia

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Yes there are things about Australian voting that I think they do better than the UK. Especially the actual voting system, but the UK absentee voting arrangements are pretty flexible. For example my ex wife asked me to vote for her for a local election and postal votes are also fairly straightforward. And polling stations are pretty handy and open from 07:00 to 22:00. I've never waited more than 2 minutes to vote, and probably never walked more than 20 minutes to vote.
 
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