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US voters have probably an order of magnitude more elections than other democracies. I'm a dual citizen: in my other country, every five years I can vote on tw
by taejo 8y ago
US voters have probably an order of magnitude more elections than other democracies.
I'm a dual citizen: in my other country, every five years I can vote on two ballots (to choose a party list for national government and one for regional government) and the following year again two ballots (to choose a party list and an individual representative for local government). In the US, I can vote for n state judges, state governor, state lieutenant governor, state treasurer, state secretary of state, state representative, state senator, presidential primary, president, federal senate primary, two senators, federal representative primary, representative, mayor, n members of the school district board, n local referenda, n state referenda. Some of these offices have terms as short as two years (e.g. representatives), or non-aligned terms (e.g., in a six year cycle there are two separate elections for federal senators). While in the other country there are two election days in every five year cycle, in the US I vote once or twice a year, and there are half a dozen to a dozen ballots on each occasion.
It could be done by hand, but the scale is very different to a more typical democracy.