Posted on 04/11/2022 1:51:05 PM PDT by george76
French voters in Sunday’s presidential election will use the same system that’s been used for generations.
French voters in Sunday's presidential election will use the same system that's been used for generations: paper ballots that are cast in person and counted by hand. Despite periodic calls for more flexibility or modernization, France doesn’t do mail-in voting, early voting or use voting machines en masse like the United States
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PAPER BALLOTS..
Voters must be at least 18 years old.
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Voters make their choices in a booth, with the curtains closed, then place their ballot in an envelope that is then put into a transparent ballot box. They must show photo identification and sign a document, next to their name, to complete the process.
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Mail-in voting was banned in 1975 amid fears of potential fraud.
Machine-voting was allowed as an experiment starting in 2002, but the purchase of new machines has been frozen since 2008 due to security concerns.
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Last year, Macron's centrist government tried to pass an amendment to allow early voting by machine to encourage electoral participation amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Senate, led by a conservative majority, rejected the measure, arguing it was announced with too little notice and was not solid enough legally.
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People who test positive for the virus can go to the polls. They are strongly advised to wear a mask
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What a concept
Wow. What a racist country. /sarc
does Le Pen have a chance of winning?
We should try that here in the new world sometime. Or, how quaint non?
Judge Rosenberg! Famous forever.
Just when you think France is full of idgits they go and do something common sense.
In America, mail-in voting was expanded in 2020 in the hope of potential fraud.
Whats old is new again ,LOL
Those racist bastages!
With paper ballots there can still be some chicanery but it requires a lot more resources and is more easily detected by observers as it happens. It is not likely to change the outcome of elections above local contests.
It is a long shot as modern French folks tend to stay with what they have already no matter how much they demonstrate against the incumbent. They want the King to treat them better but are leery of changing dynasties.
I wish we could be that honest here in America, the World’s Newest Turd World Country.
I will have some wine and cheese tonight in their honor. ;)
France could teach the American idiotS a pretty big lesson with this. This is the correct way to run an election. MACHINES AND COMPUTERS SUCK AS DO DROP BINS AND MAIL BOXES. They are only used by true dumpster fire countries.
“Those racist bastages!”
That’s bastagés to you, monsieur.
As a result, we get the speed of machine counts and the safety of paper ballots and NO magical votes that get dropped and counted the morning after.
We are a reasonably large county with roughly the same land area as the State of Rhode Island and 380,000 population. If it can work here, it should work anywhere.
Paper ballots isn't a cure-all. A friend of mine who was a volunteer observer for the GOP tells me that all their observers get to do is see people from several feet away in a glassed in room stack and count ballots. Whether their count is legitimate or not, only the people actually in the room doing the counting know for sure.
The triple check process we have in Westmoreland country (machine count, backed up by paper ballots, checked again at the country level with actual observers from all interested parties) is far superior.
The party operatives who count the votes add a handful here, a handful there, and suddenly, their guy wins.
Some places don’t want honest counts unfortunately. They only want power and control.
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