We are required to vote by law here in Australia, and the system works fine.....no queues at polling booths either

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Originally posted by UWM My girlfriend used to live in Brasil for 1 1/2 years and she recently told me that citizens are required to vote in elections, leading to a large amount of scandal and bribery.

It's not really like that... true, we're required to vote in elections, but the voting system is the best organised in the world (we developed an electronic system that gives the results within a few hours) fraud-free... however, scandal and bribery are bound to happen anywhere, and the fact that too many people who simply don't care are required to vote makes things easier for media manipulation... which happens in other places as well. Nothing is perfect

Where in Brazil did she live, by the way?

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Originally posted by UWM Fortunately, in the United States, people are allowed to choose whether or not they want to vote and make an educated (or not, if you choose to believe) decision beforehand. In the United States, each state is given a certain amount of Electoral Votes, based on the population of the state in proportion to the entire United States population.

I understood this bit.

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Originally posted by UWM When a candidate wins the majority of the popular vote in each state, they get that state's electoral votes toward their total.

So, if Arkansas had, hypothetically, 50 Electoral Votes, Bush got 26 and Kerry 24, Bush would get the 26 votes added to him and Kerry wouldn't get his 24 or both of them would get all the Electoral votes from the state (even if they lost there)?

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Originally posted by UWM When a candidate reaches 270 electoral votes, they have received a majority and have won the election.

Got it too

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Originally posted by Lira So, if Arkansas had, hypothetically, 50 Electoral Votes, Bush got 26 and Kerry 24, Bush would get the 26 votes added to him and Kerry wouldn't get his 24 or both of them would get all the Electoral votes from the state (even if they lost there)?

Arkansas is not one of the states that splits its electoral votes based on district results, so all 50 of their electoral votes will go to the winner of the popular vote throughout the state. If 1,000,000 people vote for John Kerry and 1,000,001 vote for Bush, George Bush will win all 50 electoral votes for the state.

Edit - She lived in Rio for the majority of the time and then travelled throughout the Northeast of Brazil for a while. I'll ask her again what cities she spent the most time in

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Originally posted by UWM Arkansas is not one of the states that splits its electoral votes based on district results, so all 50 of their electoral votes will go to the winner of the popular vote throughout the state. If 1,000,000 people vote for John Kerry and 1,000,001 vote for Bush, George Bush will win all 50 electoral votes for the state.

Cheers, I've understood it all now

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Originally posted by UWM Edit - She lived in Rio for the majority of the time and then travelled throughout the Northeast of Brazil for a while. I'll ask her again what cities she spent the most time in

This might've had an impact in her belief about our polls. Although my opinion is biased (my family is from São Paulo and there's a bit of a rivalry between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), São Paulo and Southern states are a more industrial and working side of Brazil, whereas Rio and the Northeast are more laid-back and poorer, so this could be a reason.

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Originally posted by JM haha... i guess my post wasnt as funny as i had thought. >JM<

hahahahah, it was not that funny

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Originally posted by JM i wish you 4 years of bitterness and bitching. God Bless, >JM<

WHAT!?!? contradicting?