Re: Glenn V. Fell for Lies About Georgia Voting Law

I've stayed out of this discussion mainly because in the run-up early 
voting i saw lines and lines of voters waiting for hours to cast their 
ballot.

I assure you that in the UK, this commitment would not have happened.

We are accustomed, due to the ample number of polling places, to walk-in 
and walk-out, having our names marked off by the temporary-employed 
electoral officials from the voters roll, updated by a mail-out to all 
households for those eligible to vote to register some months previous and 
also frequently and regularly amended, for the main reason that loan 
agencies use it to determine the addresses and length of residence of 
those applying for credit. As members of the EU, we did have the different 
rules for EU-born residents. They could vote in local city and county 
elections, the Scottish and Welsh parliaments and the European Parliament 
but not in the national General Election. The counting of the votes is 
centralized regionally and again it is by paid voluntary staff.

There are some anomalies due to history. Irish Republican citizens and 
those from Malta and Cyprus can vote in the UK General Election if 
resident, regardless of their foreign passports.

I was genuinely impressed by the average American voters determination to 
cast his or her ballot.

But it is not rocket-science to devise an easily operated election process 
even under the most trying of circumstances such as faced by India, for 
example, which shares the feature of America being a federal union of 
individual states but with many additional difficulties complicating 
elections even more than any the USA face.

Trying to solve it on a state-by-state basis i believe is merely a recipe 
for failure and will not bring any resolution to the problem of 
universality and uniformity.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_India