Posted on 11/06/2012 1:13:18 PM PST by GraceG
For the head of Libya's national election commission, the method by which Americans vote is startling in that it depends so much on trust and the good faith of election officials and voters alike.
"It's an incredible system," said Nuri K. Elabbar, who traveled to the United States along with election officials from more than 60 countries to observe today's presidential elections as part of a program run by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES). Your humble Cable guy visited polling places with some of the international officials this morning. Most of them agreed that in their countries, such an open voting system simply would not work.
"It's very difficult to transfer this system as it is to any other country. This system is built according to trust and this trust needs a lot of procedures and a lot of education for other countries to adopt it," Elabbar said.
The most often noted difference between American elections among the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification. Voters can also vote by mail, sometimes online, and there's often no way to know if one person has voted several times under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters ink their fingers when casting their ballots.
The international visitors also noted that there's no police at U.S. polling stations. In foreign countries, police at polling places are viewed as signs of security; in the United States they are sometimes seen as intimidating.
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Hilarious, isn’t it? In a pathetic kind of way.
I’m betting the UN observers will be getting a visit from some Democommie thugs today, reminding them what their “job” here is actually supposed to be!
Thanks for the link! Stay safe.
Only if you have a guilty conscience and something to hide.
Regards,
GtG
Third World basket case Countries have more honest elections than the corrupt Democratic-Party policy run USA.
Geez, even a third world country like Mexico has tighter voter security than we do... Pathetic...
Here in Oklahoma, you have to have a DL or photo ID, and they like you to have your voter registration card, and you sign the log book, but that is it...
Here in Oklahoma this is the first year a photo ID is required to vote. Showed the poll worker my military ID, she handed it back and said “Thank you” twice. Made me feel pretty good.
No ID required here in Los Angeles this afternoon.
I had to show ID in Texas
Same here. Paper ballots, similar to the multiple choice questions from school. Then the individual voter fed his into the reader, which sat on top of a locked/secure container where the actual ballots were deposited after being read by the scanner, before they left the polling place.
My wife and I had to show a PICTURE ID to get in the door at the voting precinct today. Indiana
Not funny at all. Michigan voting laws are not under Justice Department scrutiny like some other states, because we weren't listed in the Voting Rights Act of 1968.
It is the states that are under DOJ review of their voting laws that have an impossible time getting voter ID past the DOJ. Which states are those, you may ask?
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