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If Clinton, Trump, and Did Not Vote were presidential candidates in 2016 (brilliantmaps.com)

submitted 3 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In most of the countries of the World elections are on Sunday and Saturday for this exact reason, US could change to weekend voting days as well:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/46ukem/so_camerons_eu_referendum_is_on_a_thursday_which/

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Another confirmation that Russia is European country.

Also, US, please fix yet another thing you are worse at than Russia.

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Who debated that. Historically, culturally Russia is European. Most of the population of Russia lives on the western side of the Urals.

But using it as a good example of elections, well... In the US you can choose from 2 candidates. In russia you can select from 1...

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'd love voting on a Saturday tbh. There's still a lot of people working service schedules who wouldn't be able to, but that could also be fixed by universal vote by mail, or make it two separate days even.... really the answer is just to make it a damn mandatory holiday and call it.