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Tom Martin's avatar

As an American, I would love to hear how people from other countries feel about their elections, especially with regard to lock boxes and security. I really meant drop boxes or any random places to put ballots vs at a local voting location where ballots are handled with integrity and securely then counted at that location. Anything else is fraud guaranteed.

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Caz Hart's avatar

Australia, no problem with lock boxes, voting fraud, enrolling to vote, or any candidate not accepting the results, no matter how close. We're all good here. We have mandatory voting registration and getting ticked off the list (no one can force anyone to cast a valid vote, so it's not actually mandatory voting), we don't have jerrymandered electorates, got rid of that decades ago. Voting is on a Saturday, or postal, or at early open booths in the weeks prior to the official day.

It's not hard to have honest elections, conducted with integrity. America chooses not to do it that way.

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Dr. Doug Gilbert's avatar

Agreed. As essentially a Euro-American more, less-filtered content would be welcome.

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Caz Hart's avatar

I realize I was slightly misleading in my response. We're fine with locked boxes, because we don't have them. Ballot papers go into simple large cardboard boxes, which have lids with a slot to drop the ballots in. There are no locks. Yep. No locks! No nonsense. Lots of trust.

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