Did she have her passport and birth certificate with her?
We don’t need them. We have our address on file, and when you turn up to vote, they look up your name in the electorate book, and you confirm your address. That’s all the ID you need. Then they give you two voting sheets and there’s a pencil in the booth.
You see, Australia is still basically a high trust society, where we don’t typically have to go around everywhere at all times assuming that everyone we meet is actively trying to trick or rob us. The US is … not that.
That, plus they do cross your name off the list when you vote. High turnout prevents people trying to use more than one name; voting is compulsory, and turnout is above 95%.
They cross-check for fraud after each election. There is fraud, but not nearly enough to worry about - fractions of a percent. And as has been mentioned elsewhere, the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero, and the grown-ups here know that.
Awesome. My 12-year-old is learning about the world in part from YouTube, and asked about “wasting a vote”, so we had a fun conversation about preferential voting. I’ll show them this too.
Whereas the US is a high colonic society.
Hmmm, two chronic liars telling different stories. What to believe?
I’m going to go with “they’re both arseholes”.
Not very surprisingly the German domestic intelligence is right wing as fuck. If they say someone is too right wing for their taste, believe them.
The big question now is whether, as with the NPD, making them illegal won’t work because most of their senior people are on the BfV payroll as IM, sorry, V-Männer.
