For me it is the concept of registering to vote. I am citizen so I have the right to vote automatically and only thing I need to provide is some accepted ID.

  • vividspecter@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    • FPTP voting system

    • Voting isn’t compulsory so a lot depends upon on riling up your base

    • Voting is on a Tuesday instead of a weekend (or a public holiday)

    • Political parties draw up the electoral boundaries instead of an independent body

    • The absurdly long leadup to an election

    • The amount of money thrown around

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I mean yes, but the real disenfranchisement comes from making sure the lines are hours long for the only polling station in your county (while every suburban school is a polling station in rich neighborhoods).

      We had laws against that (not that they were followed), but the Supreme Court struck them down because “they weren’t needed anymore”.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Being registered “as a republican/democrat” is weird.

    Electoral college is weird AF

    One party trying to stop people voting is weird.

    Queuing for hours to vote is weird.

    Purging voter rolls is weird.

    Rallies are weird.

    Townhalls are weird.

    Flags everywhere is weird.

    The orange one is super weird.

  • Mr. Satan@monyet.cc
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    1 month ago

    The fucking shows your politicians put on. Like going places and then having some monologue in front of a bunch of people. Not even a debate or something… Weird as fuck to me.

  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    Electoral college is fucking weird

    That you disallow prisoners to vote, but a felon can run as a candidate

    That you end up in situation where there are hours long lines and you don’t have one station per, say, 1000 people at most

    Registering to vote is weird, but that is i understand mostly a consequence of not having countrywide ID standard. In my country you’re automatically registered where you live, and IDs are free of charge and mandatory to have (not driving license or passport. there are fees for these)

    Election isn’t on weekend, there’s zero reason why it couldn’t be or it could be made national holiday. There was even free public transit for election day in my city, but that one was paid by the city

    That some of people (republicans) seem to be into politics in the same way ultras seem to be into football, it’s still fucked up but i’ve seen it in other places so it’s not that weird by now

  • Libb@jlai.lu
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    1 month ago

    Non US citizens, what’s the weirdest thing about USA elections, compared to elections in your country?

    I will probably get downvoted to oblivion for that but here it is: that one of your candidate was not put in jail already and is still legally able to run for presidency (note that I did not name said candidate, I would not want to influence US voters ;)