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- Feb 6, 2018
American election laws are essentially a patchwork from a system developed over 200 years ago when the vast majority of the population (including most white men) couldn't vote. Since then, the states have largely made changes as they go along, and jealously guard their constitutionally enshrined right to choose how they send their delegations to Congress. While this system was created when the idea of the United States was as a collection of states with a small federal government, it is for all intents and purposes not conducive to how the federal government operates today and how much of a role it has in people's lives.My country has a law stating that counting, once started, must not interrupted and must end within 12 hours. I seriously thought it was the normal course of action anywhere...well, anywhere first worldish? Anywhere not former Soviet puppetstate?
Reading this thread would seriously make all the Founding Fathers immediately give up the whole independence thing. The empire wasn't really that bad, wasn't it?