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In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can st
by DontBreakAlex 1y ago
In europe, voting typically happens in one day, where everyone physically goes to their designated voting place and puts papers in a transparent box. You can stay there and wait for the count at the end of the day if you want to. Tom Scott has a very good video about why we don't want electronic/mail voting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
- jampekka 1y agoMany countries in Europe have advance voting.
- silversmith 1y agoOff the top of my head, I can't think of an EU country that does not have some form of advance voting. Here in Latvia the "election day" is usually (always?) on weekend, but the polling stations are open for some (and different!) part of every weekday leading up. Something like couple hours on monday morning, couple hours on tuesday evening, couple around midday wednesday, etc. In my opinion, it's a great system. You have to have a pretty convoluted schedule for at least one window not to line up for you.
- ndom91 1y agoGermany has mail-in voting, not sure if that counts as advanced voting though
- generalspecific 1y agoIreland doesn't have it.
- alborzb 1y agoThat's not true (as somebody who had to do this last year in 2024 because I was traveling in another country for work on election day) Here is the form to register for postal voting in the Republic of Ireland - https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2024-01/pv4-work-study-jan-24.pdf https://www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/2024-01/pv4-wo... Instructions on how to submit the form / register for mail-in votes is on page 4. Hope that helps anyone else out who needs in Ireland
- embedding-shape 1y agoI think they meant "don't have it" as in except in special circumstances, and that form says: > You may use this form to apply for a postal vote if, due to the circumstances of your work/service or your full-time study in the State, you cannot go to your polling station on polling day. Which seems to indicate that's only for people who can't go to the polling station, otherwise you do have to go there.
- esperent 1y agoI think that a lot of Ireland's voting practices come from having a small population but a huge diaspora. I imagine the percentage of people living outside Ireland what would be eligible to vote in many other countries is significant enough to effect elections, certainly if they are close. As someone who spent the first 30 years of my life in Ireland but is now part of that diaspora, it's frustrating but I get it. I don't get to vote, but neither do thousands of plastic paddys who have very little genuine connection to Ireland. That said, I'm sure they could expand the voting window to a couple of days at least without too much issue.
- mrighele 1y agoItaly has mail-in vote only for citizen residing abroad. The rest vote on the election Sunday (and Monday morning in some cases, at least in the past).
- tempestn 1y agoElectronic voting and mail voting are very different things though.
- vasco 1y agoThey both share the fact that you don't see your vote enter a ballot box.
- samtp 1y agoWell "mail in voting" in Washington state pretty much means you drop off your ballot in a drop box in your neighborhood. Which is pretty much the same thing as putting it in a ballot box.
- arsome 1y agoOne of these things is much easier to burn or otherwise tamper with.
- trevoragilbert 1y agoYou should research what’s inside the boxes in Oregon before just assuming they’re easier to tamper with.
- maxdamantus 1y agoDoesn't look difficult: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/ballot-box-fires https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/ballot-box-fires (yes, that's in Oregon)
- bee_rider 1y agoI’m not sure what’s so special in Oregon’s ballot boxes. But, tampering that is detected (don’t need much special to detect a burning box I guess!) is not a complete failure for a system. If any elections were close enough for a box to matter, they could have rerun them.
- ed_elliott_asc 1y agoUK is a one day affair with voting booths typically open like 6 am to 10 pm
- xnorswap 1y agoWith the option to do a postal vote, or vote-by-proxy.
- speakfreely 1y agoVoting seems like one of the few problems that blockchain is actually the solution for.
- Sammi 1y agoNope. Blockchain has no anonymity.
- fancyswimtime 1y agowouldn't that be a feature in this case?
- konimex 1y agoNot really. Your ballot should be secret, which goes against blockchain, I guess.
- kaibee 1y agoAnonymous voting means that you can't sell your vote. Like, if I pay you $5 to vote for X, but I can't actually verify that you voted for X and not Y, then I wouldn't bother trying. Or if I'm your boss and I want you to vote for X... etc.
- johnsonelephant 1y agoMonero demonstrates a solution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_signature)
- wodenokoto 1y agoWe do mail voting from embassies or consulates when abroad.
- w3ll_w3ll_w3ll 1y agoIn Italy we typically vote for two days, usually Sunday and Monday or Saturday and Sunday.
- chrisandchris 1y agoEurope, expect in the middle of it in Switzerland where at least I know nobody that actually goes to the voting place. We do it by mail.