Ok would you people PLEASE get your election shit together

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40. The reality is that the US is not a homogeneous population

united into a single Republic, it is an entire continent equivalent land mass that incorporates 50 written constitutions and 50 Courts into a federated constitution with an additional court.

The equivalent comparison would be with the European Union or ASEAN, or all S America or either half of Africa.

In order to achieve that, which no other largely populated geographically dispersed state has achieved for a single century let alone starting on our third.

The answer requires a union of highly autonomous jurisdictions (states) that give people local control while being held accountable to a federal constitution which establishes basic principles.

Also given that we have elections at a much higher frequency than any other democracy it means that differing populations have different preferences how to do that. Some want all mail in ballots some want a mix.

I fall to see why any of that should be the least bit objectionable to any one if it creates more avenues for more people to vote.

The "get your shit together" isn't my words but using the OPs offensive phrase on him because he is advocating imposing a single system of non mail in person voting on a country of 330 million.

I could suggest that if Canada added mail more rural and native voters could participate but I don't because a) I have no idea if that is true b) it is none of my business.

The issue of the electoral college has nothing to do with the patronizing and rather uniformed dribble of the OP.. The electoral college was the compromise necessary to obtain small states to agree to a more centralized federal government after the failure of the Articles of Federation.

There are many more objections to his suggestion of no mail in voting not the least of which is the disenfranchisement of millions of US military that are not resident in their voting jurisdiction, 3 million citizens living overseas (but unlike other countries still obligated to pay taxes) millions that are traveling. I would also add the informed but I assume that Canada has a mechanism for that.

All of this complaint from the OP for what reason? It takes a week to get complete results. What is the fucking rush? It's more important to get more people involved in a transparent process than to have it done by some artificial deadline.

And by the way the OPs final sentence is patently false

It's coming up on a week . . . don't have results for House OR Senate?

We have 99% of the results in. Anybody in the world who loves Democracy should be rejoicing on the results of this election, it's rejection of election deniers, it's reversal of traditional off year trends, the non violence, increased youth and minority participation and it's rejection of America firsterism. Complaining about how long it takes to get such results is pretty small grapes.