Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Foreign election officials amazed by trust-based U.S. voting system

Foreign election officials amazed by trust-based U.S. voting system | The Cable
"It's very difficult to transfer this system as it is to anyother country.
This system is built according to trust and this trust needs alot of procedures and a lot of education for other countries to adopt it,"Elabbar said.

The most often noted difference between American electionsamong the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification.
Voters can also vote by mail, sometimesonline, and there's often no way to know if one person has voted severaltimes under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters inktheir fingers when casting their ballots.

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