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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.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 20 points 13 hours ago

Some things come to mind:

  • Each state could theoretically name a different candidate (all that primaries bullshit)
  • No unified federal law for voting for the fucking president; each state has different voting laws
  • Parties have to be registered at a state level and ONLY Rep and Dem exist on all 50. What the fucking fuck
  • Unlimited money spending
  • The fucking electoral college. Winner takes the whole state.
  • Election on tuesday (if i recall, that's a leftover of ye olde times because it's when rural people were more likely to be around cities)

'muricans somehow insist they are a democracy despite all the hurdles, weird laws and obvious gatekeeping that make it a very shitty republic where votes are NOT equal.

For comparison, Brazil's elections for president and state governors happen on the same year/day (also for some senators and federal deputies, but let's focus on president). It's direct vote counting, majority (50% + 1) wins. If no candidate gets more than half total votes, the 2 better voted candidates go to a 2nd turn, which happens 4 weeks after the 1st. Election happens on a sunday and there's an electoral tribunal that handles all the logistics across all 27 states.

Regarding expenditure, it took us a while to stop allowing corporations to finance candidates' campaigns (thanks in no small part to a supreme judge who wanted to keep that legal), the downside is that candidates with rich "friends"/families still have a significant advantage, since direct individual donations are still allowed.

[-] mbehling@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Some states actually split the electoral college vote. Us elections are truly bonkers

https://electoralvotemap.com/which-states-split-their-electoral-votes/

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