Americans - my vote has been effectively stolen this year. If mine, how many others? Please vote. Polls mean nothing, only the votes that happen and are actually counted matter.
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And I'm assuming you can't just turn up to the US consulate on Tuesday and vote?
@hacks4pancakes at least you’re here and they can’t seize you!
The USA isn't and never has been a democracy, because of it's dreadful Constitution, which allows such practises as gerrymandering, the purging of voters rolls, the electoral college, and numerous other anti-democratic activities.
These things are illegal in every other developed Western nation.
It is, at best, a Pseudo-Democracy.
@hacks4pancakes Just for another datapoint:
* Ballot PDF received by email mid-September from my board of elections
* Ballot printed and returned by registered mail from Japan in late September
* Ballot sat in US customs in New York for about a week before release
* Ballot received and counted by my BoE in early October, email notification received
Total transit time was about 12 days, almost normal. Destination was the only red congressional district in a solidly blue state.
Sad to say, you aren't the only USian outside the borders who has reported something like this.
@undead I know. All I can do is sound the alarm even more.
@hacks4pancakes oh bugger! You got it in in plenty of time
@dropbear yes. I even tracked it to observe the shenanigans
@hacks4pancakes they always mail my ballot so i get it on election day but after the post office is closed so i cant send it in by deadline
@hacks4pancakes what happened? I thought you absentee voted and it was ok?
(Mandatory paper ballot seized and not released by US customs for over a month)
@hacks4pancakes As the other commenter suggested, I hope you decide to make a lot of noise about it. Interference like what Customs is doing must be illegal
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Fuck. That. Shit.
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That's such a weird system! They mail you the paper and you have to use that, and nothing else?
Sorry if the question is dumb, I'm not American.