My Texan friend had to queue for all of 10 minutes. But you can't disenfranchise white, middle class republicans quite as easily as you can disenfranchise minorities who are voting for the other guy anyway.
The US has a really crazy system where they elect their election officials, gerrymandering electorates is accepted practice and tampering is a time-honoured tradition. Dead people turning up to vote is hardly something new.
In Aus we often have to queue to vote, but we have compulsory voting, and the vote is held on a Saturday. Many polling stations are at primary schools, and these schools take the opportunity to hold bake sales and the like, so you get an almost carnival atmosphere on election day. It's a lot of fun, especially for political junkies.
The US has a really crazy system where they elect their election officials, gerrymandering electorates is accepted practice and tampering is a time-honoured tradition. Dead people turning up to vote is hardly something new.
In Aus we often have to queue to vote, but we have compulsory voting, and the vote is held on a Saturday. Many polling stations are at primary schools, and these schools take the opportunity to hold bake sales and the like, so you get an almost carnival atmosphere on election day. It's a lot of fun, especially for political junkies.