An average person like me does not know about stuff like chasing absentee ballots.
Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.
The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.
In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.
