The federal portion is pretty small in an American election too, three races at most. President every four years, one congressman every two years, one senator a

The federal portion is pretty small in an American election too, three races at most. President every four years, one congressman every two years, one senator at a time (six year terms, but they are staggered so a state's senators get elected in different cycles). At the federal level, we don't vote for judges or referenda or anything like that. On the other hand, my state is vote by mail, so no tricky machines. Just drawing a line to complete an arrow, then mailing it back in. Pretty hard to screw up.