Just a Canadian perspective,
I just heard a news segment on American ex-patriots living in Canada voting in this election - the guide with the ballot is 300 pages long - how complicated can it be to mark a ballot?
The voting system is Canada is so simple, I'm sure we'd be happy to give you advice - we have the same system nationwide that is used in all elections, municipal, provincial and federal - all you do is mark an X beside the candidate on a paper ballot, it is easy to read, anyone can mark an X, and they are tabulated at the end of the polling by some sort of machine/counter.
And this voter registration stuff - weird - the government has a special agency called Election Canada which prepares the voters list, again for all elections, once you are on you are on, for example election comes up, I get a card in the mail several weeks before the election date, it has the election date and my polling station. All I have to do is bring the card with me. If you aren't on the voters list the ennumerators go door to door for those addresses they have no voters listed or you can go to the government and get put on the voters list. None of this stuff with private groups trying to register voters where it is clear all the problems are. And I think you can be added to the voter's list if you show up with proper ID, I can't remember. I have no recollection of any problems with fraud, recounts in very close ridings but that is it.
Quote:" I just heard a news segment on American ex-patriots living in Canada voting in this election - the guide with the ballot is 300 pages long - how complicated can it be to mark a ballot?"
In truth that's the way it is most places in the US.
Maybe 10 races or Issues to decide National / State / Local / and ballot issues. Two minutes in the booth and you'r out.
Your problem in Canada is 1/10th the problem we have in the States in terms of size, and number, but somehow elections always come out just fine in both countries.
Hype. Fear-Mongering, and Fraud. That's what you are hearing today.