Why is it 30 million eurpeans englishmen can vote on paper ballots and have their entire vote counted by 3am?
917430
30 million and --300 million are a bit difrent, and and the usa is thousand of times biger?
704315
Yes, because part of the "choice" in a democracy is not to vote for anyone at all. (Although a "none of the above" option on a ballot would suffice for that.)  The problem is that Americans don't believe that they have a duty to vote.
1065372
Because of the location that you live in. If you lived in Britain the times would be from 9.00am to 3.00 pm
872411
Yes.  We had mechanical voting machines for decades.  You disappear behind a curtain and pull the crank to clear the machine when finished moving levers.  I've read those old monsters are the most precise.
593652
It makes sense to vote in the states that have not yet been corrupted. Plus if we the dems did not vote it would give the appearance that there really is a 'republican majority'. Planning a mass protest involving not voting would never work either. It'd be too hard to organize. We vote for the same reason there is religion. Faith. \n\nOf course, faith really doesn't work all that well sometimes. Maybe the lying cheaters will get caught one day! Or maybe progressives need to do more on ensuring 'fair elections'. If the republicans have nothing to hide why are they so adamantly opposed to paper ballots? Hmmm, i wonder.
723427
what? that question hardly makes sense.\n\nwhy does anybody do anything?\n\nAre you so pressed for time you cannot spend 30 minutes of your time to vote every 4 years?
985036
They are already using the "Diebold (maker of the new touch screen machines)won a no bid contract from the government so they are corrupted by the conservatives" excuse. Watch, if they lose it will be because of the machines. It can't possibly be because they really are too stupid to vote correctly.
320390
I read the other day that he's running your country with only 33% approval ratings, now thats idiotic.there must be a lesson in this, maybe everyone should use there democratic rite to vote.
719449
Votes for each election are counted (as far as I'm aware you can only vote in the constituency that you are registered to vote in), winner is the one with the most votes!  Simple, but effective!\n\nThe party which wins the most seats (areas of voting) gets into power.\n\nIf you've voted by post then your vote is only counted in your constituency.\n\nAt least that's how I understand it.  \n\nAs for the smartarse comment 'they actually have a system', for information purposes, the British Parliamentry system is the second oldest behind, surprisingly, Iceland's!
241088
Ballot voting is when everyone gets a chance to vote once and they add up the results.
610393
Local council elections were yesterday with vote counting last night. The Conservatives won both the largest share of the vote and the largest number of net seats.\n\nThe BBC has good coverage on this:\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk_politics/2006/election_2006/default.stm
891595
only 70% of Americans are eligible to vote, and 52% OF Americans eligible to vote are registered, about 40% of those registered actually vote regularly\nso less than 20% of those eligible to vote make the decisions in this country for everyone\na recap\n300 million people=US\n210 million people= Eligible to vote\n109 million people= registered to vote\n41   million people= those who vote\n20.5 million people+1= number of votes required to win\n=\n7.5% of the people do all the  thinking
797080
Voting & a paper trail is all good but for total verification we will need to eliminate all secretcy retain a genuine ballot leaving the polls! Publically post this same exact copy on your county website! Plus be able trace anyone's accountability when transmitted numerically open to the public no hiding in secret! So like how you manage a bank account you can moniter all functions through every level of accountability! People against this don't like it cause cheating is easier carried out from the start if you have no means of verification! Having everything accessable to all is to keep it all honest & put more responsability on the individual to tract his or her vote from start to finish ending in the numeric statistics etc. If it can not be resolved soon i would support the revolution hopefully to inact a true Democracy with complete rule & control by the legal majority of citizens!
236316
It's more. You have a _responsibility_ to vote. Voting is the orgasm of democracy. Unfortunately, most citizens can't get it up.
773524
In every race there are mistakes made in the vote counting. Either a machine malfunctioned or ballots were miscounted. It just happens. And when a vote is as close as these two are, it is just natural to check for those mistakes.
900030
You're in Britain, right?\n\nThat is interesting about the Isle of Man lowering the voting age.  Honestly, I often think 18 is on the young side to be voting (I thought this even when I was 18).  So, my answer, even though we are not discussing my country (US) would be "No".\n\nWhat do you think?
759373
I think most people can vote. Presumably those over twenty as that seems to be the age of majority here. However, the government is such a bureautic one party system that it doesn't seem like they get much of choice. They more vote for the leader of the party I think.