Your last point about the 'insane amount of individual votes' is really the whole problem. In Europe, as I understand it, you vote for a single person and that

Your last point about the 'insane amount of individual votes' is really the whole problem. In Europe, as I understand it, you vote for a single person and that person does the rest of the voting for your area. I'm sorry if I am wrong about that or oversimplified it; that's the current state of my knowledge on the subject. Just so you know: America started out that way too, which is why we have the 'house of representatives'. The framers of the constitution intended that congressional districts never exceed 50K to 60K thousand. Unfortunately the average congressional district in America is currently about 700K. Voting for someone to represent me and my closest 699,999 friends is barely a vote at all. With congressional districts that large (not to mention fcking gerrymandering) you are not really voting along with your peers. People are grouped together in strange ways. https://thirty-thousand.org/ https://thirty-thousand.org/ Also, Germany is 1/4th the size of the US and the UK is 1/5th the size of the US. The net result is; Americans are not accurately represented at a national level. When you combine that with the fact that we pride ourselves on our independence and individuality; taking away our ability* to cast votes on local issues is probably not going to fly. If anything I'm guessing we'd want more power to vote individually. Two of the last five presidents who were elected were not chosen by the majority of the population. I think a simpler solution like paper ballots and many polling places might help, but, the sheer manpower to make sure that goes well would be a massive undertaking. As I said, many multiples larger than in some European countries. Having an explainable (to your point) system that is open and exhaustively tested is one path to avoid the current mess we find ourselves in.