[Politics] The 2024 US Election - Trump v Harris

[Westdene Seagull]

Not sure how many people in the UK have ever seen an American ballot paper. This is my Arizona ballot for the November election - and yes, it genuinely is FOUR pages long

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Voting in the US is definitely NOT a 5-minute job! A little bit more convoluted than a UK General Election. Just for good measure you get sent some "pamphlets" to aid your decision-making - this one a mere 354 pages (it mainly consists of arguments for and against the various propositions on the ballot):-

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And yet Americans have one of lowest attention spans in the world !

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Not sure how many people in the UK have ever seen an American ballot paper. This is my Arizona ballot for the November election - and yes, it genuinely is FOUR pages long

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So interesting, thanks for posting.

 

[US Seagull]

Not sure how many people in the UK have ever seen an American ballot paper. This is my Arizona ballot for the November election - and yes, it genuinely is FOUR pages long

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Voting in the US is definitely NOT a 5-minute job! A little bit more convoluted than a UK General Election. Just for good measure you get sent some "pamphlets" to aid your decision-making - this one a mere 354 pages (it mainly consists of arguments for and against the various propositions on the ballot):-

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Ah. You get short ones in AZ then

(actually I think ours might be a bit shorter this time, hard to tell, the local BoE won't give me a pdf of the ballot so I can see how long it would be - but you can see the "sample" ballot online and it has 31(!) questions)

 

[Igzilla]

Please provide the link to this data.

Thanks.

It'll be a link to a Newsmax youtube video, or somesuch shit.

On another note, whatever happened to QAnon? Those were fun times.

 

[US Seagull]

Ugh. Politicians pandering to the MAGA crowd:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article294375174.html

Shooting a journalist just for the votes.

 

[AZ Gull]

Ah. You get short ones in AZ then

(actually I think ours might be a bit shorter this time, hard to tell, the local BoE won't give me a pdf of the ballot so I can see how long it would be - but you can see the "sample" ballot online and it has 31(!) questions)

Do you have the option of early voting (either in person or mail-in)?

Thankfully we have mail-in voting here; if I had to actually go to a polling station on election day, potentially queue up and then fill in that monster I think I might be tempted to just give the whole thing a swerve.

 

[US Seagull]

Do you have the option of early voting (either in person or mail-in)?

Thankfully we have mail-in voting here; if I had to actually go to a polling station on election day, potentially queue up and then fill in that monster I think I might be tempted to just give the whole thing a swerve.

I could have requested a mail-in ballot, but I didn't bother this time. I could also vote early at the board of elections, but it's not terribly convenient to get to. It's downtown, but not really downtown. I work downtown, but it's still about a 20 minute walk from my office. Which is a bit much to pop out during lunch.

A lot of space on our ballot is taken up by judges running unopposed, so those you could skip those. I'm never sure if it makes any difference at all if I take the time to shade in those bubbles on the ballot or not.

The tricky bit is the judges who are running against somebody because those elections are "non-partisan", but really aren't. So they don't have party identifications. So I actually have to look those up ahead of time. It's why I go to the BoE website to see the ballot before I head to the polls.

 

[golddene]

What do you base this idea of the majority on?

Majority of voters went for the blue team in every election since 1992 except for 2004 when the red team garnered more than the blues !

 

[jcdenton08]

Can someone tell me please what are Harris’s views on;

Britain
Ukraine/Russia

Many thanks

 

[Zeberdi]

Not sure how many people in the UK have ever seen an American ballot paper. This is my Arizona ballot for the November election - and yes, it genuinely is FOUR pages long

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Voting in the US is definitely NOT a 5-minute job! A little bit more convoluted than a UK General Election. Just for good measure you get sent some "pamphlets" to aid your decision-making - this one a mere 354 pages (it mainly consists of arguments for and against the various propositions on the ballot):-

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Wow.

That must be beyond the capacity of most Trump supporters.

(Am I allowed to say that?)

 

[Zeberdi]

Can someone tell me please what are Harris’s views on;

Britain
Ukraine/Russia

Many thanks

She will honour the “special relationship” with the UK (All prospective American Presidents cart out that trope)

As far as Ukraine, she is similar to Biden (and will continue to aid Ukraine) however, her background in Law will make her more vocal than either Biden or Trump when it comes to Russia’s illegal occupation and alleged war crimes.

How Donald Trump and Kamala Harris differ on the Russia-Ukraine war

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris sharply differ on the Ukraine-Russia war and Putin. Weeks before the 2024 election, here's where the two presidential nominees stand.

www.cbsnews.com