If you vote by mail in Florida, it's 10 times more likely that ballot won't count

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42. Imo that's an extremely ignorant statement about conditions in

many underdeveloped nations and the difficulties people there face.

To put it mildly, you'd face an extremely steep learning curve if you were to be dropped into a new life in what you're calling a banana republic. Of course, without someone to explain the many painful and even dangerous lessons such a person might face, there's no telling how you'd interpret them. Maybe you'd decide there was no real difference from back in the states.

This is from the State Department's current travel advisory on Nicaragua, not daily reality for Nicaraguans who keep their heads down so to speak, which would be almost everyone, of course.

Throughout Nicaragua, armed and violent uniformed police or civilians in plain clothes acting as police (“para-police”) are targeting anyone considered to be in opposition to the rule of President Ortega. The government and its affiliated armed groups have been reported to:

Arbitrarily detain protestors, with credible claims of torture and disappearances.
Systematically target opposition figures, including clergy members.
Prevent certain individuals from departing Nicaragua by air or land.
Seize privately owned land.
Arbitrarily search personal phones and computers for anti-government content.
Arbitrarily detain certain individuals with unfounded charges of terrorism, money laundering, and organized crime.
These police and para-police groups often cover their faces, sometimes operate in groups numbering in the hundreds, and use unmarked vehicles.