WASHINGTON/PRAHA Tick and enter the name of your favorite candidate, sign the ballot paper, put the suits in the delivered, go sign here once and finally send the sweat. So simple is the correspondence (but absent) of the vote in the elections in the United States.
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The main advantage of the correspondence election is that voters do not have to appear in person in a polling station, which can be found even a few kilometers away in a number of populated states such as Montana and New Mexico. The first distance from the city where physical voting was supposed to take place was a historical reason for the introduction of the possibility of correspondence voting in the 19th century in the United States. At that time, it was supposed to enable the election act of soldiers who served on depots outside their home federal state.
Gradually, however, the circle of people who can vote for debt grew in the USA. Today, this method allows everyone to vote for most of the federal states, and many of them pay that a standardized ballot suit be sent no later than election day. For example, in Pennsylvania, the court, which arrived in the polls on Friday, could be ruled in favor of the court, and in Nevada, the votes delivered on November 12 will be quoted. However, others require that the tickets be delivered on election day, they will run out later, they are invalid.
According to most surveys, the possibility of voting by correspondence increases voter turnout: the convenience that this method entails, due to the electoral act of the electorate, who would not otherwise compete in the polling stations for various reasons.
This year’s presidential election will go down in history as a record, according to the corresponding votes, around two-thirds of voters voted for this method of election. Undoubtedly, coronavirus infection helped, and in a number of polls it caused fear of congestion in the polling stations. Even in the past, this was not a matter of great importance, in the presidential election those years ago about a quarter of those who voted for the electoral act voted in this way.
There is no evidence that correspondent voices are prone to errors, even fraud. In 2016, due to formal shortcomings, only about one percent of correspondent votes were cast, most often because the signature on the ballot paper did not agree with the one on the suit.
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If President Donald Trump repeatedly questions the validity of the correspondence vote these days, he has no basis for support, nor can there be any evidence of fraud in the past.
In a sense, Trump is consistent in his efforts to erase votes: The president, in the midst of this year’s apparent assumption that the correspondent vote would not have to favor him, tried to make changes to him. atm caused the invalidity of some correspondence votes.
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Correspondence is now popular in many democratic countries. In many of them, in this way, only citizens residing abroad, or people with disabilities, could vote at first. Gradually, however, the first to correspondence election extends to all series of regimes. Undoubtedly, the effort to compensate for the declining volume of citizens’ election elections leads to this liberal approach.
From European countries, the corresponding correspondence, e.g. in Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
This approach attracted a lot of attention in the 2016 presidential elections in Austria: administrative doubts and technical problems (not moderate fraud) with the processing of correspondence votes then led to a repeat of the second round of elections. As a result, nothing has changed, and for the second time, the independent candidate Alexander Van der Bellen has increased.
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