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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. I wonder how other first world countries handle their elections.

Reply to Proud liberal 80 (Original post)

Mon Nov 30, 2020, 01:43 AM

Nov 2020

I know we are the only one with something as weird and dysfunctional as the Electoral College, but how quickly are results reported in Canada? Great Britain? Australia?

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Our election system needs to change [View all] Proud liberal 80 Nov 2020 OP

K&R, It's way too dependent on people with good intentions uponit7771 Nov 2020 #1

I wonder how other first world countries handle their elections. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #2

Very quickly in Canada. roamer65 Nov 2020 #3

Australia - compulsory voting canetoad Nov 2020 #5

Yes. It's a bizarrely unworkable system canetoad Nov 2020 #4