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I'm a South Korean national living in the Silicon Valley area. I've participated in South Korean election several times, including one (or two?) congressional
by yongjik 8y ago
I'm a South Korean national living in the Silicon Valley area. I've participated in South Korean election several times, including one (or two?) congressional election. Luckily for me, they open a voting booth in San Jose so that every Korean citizen in the area can come and vote.
When I arrive, they ask for my ID (i.e., passport), look up my registered address, and the computer automatically prints out the correct set of ballots, and an envelope with the correct return address. I take them to the voting booth, stamp on the candidates I like, put the ballots into the envelope, seal the envelope, and put it in a box, and later all the envelopes in the box will be sorted and sent to the correct district so that they can be counted at the actual election day.
It's 2018, folks. This isn't magic.
- eseehausen 8y agoMaking things hard to vote is a feature, not a bug.
- masonic 8y agothey ask for my ID Fine for Korean elections; illegal for domestic elections here.
- kilotaras 8y agoSK most likely has a national ID that is automatically received by all citizen (same as overwhelming majority of rest of the world). US doesn't.