How does your country organize votes compared to the usa ?

since there seem to be some trouble brewing in the usa maybe you find this input useful.

VOTING in GERMANY:

We vote on Sunday

The people who run for election and the people who run the election must be different people

Citizens have an automatic right to vote, they don't have to register for voting

No excuse and no witness is needed to vote by mail

The number of seats in parliament for each party is determined by the total number of votes

The chancellor is elected by 50% +1 member of parliament = she is elected because her coalition won the national popular vote

The rules for federal elections are set on the federal level = the rules are the same for every citizen no matter in which state they live

Prisoners can vote

You don't have to be a German citizen at birth to become Germany's chancellor

There are several measures in place to decrease the dependency of parties on money from donors and lobbyists: German parties get subsidies from the government based on their election outcome. TV stations have to show free ads from political parties (the time is allocated based on election outcome). Parties can use the public space to set up their posters and billboards for free so they do not have to pay for advertising space. The donations to the CDU in the election year 2017 on federal, state and local level combined were 22.1 million euro (0.22 euro per inhabitant in Germany). Donald Trump/RNC and Joe Biden/DNC raised about $1.5 billion each until the first half of October ($4.6 per US inhabitant for each campaign) just on the federal level and just for the Presidential election.

Gerrymandering districts is not a thing because only the number of votes nationwide are relevant for the outcome of the election

Foreign citizens of the other 26 EU countries have the right to vote and be elected at all local elections

You are not allowed to take a ballot selfie

Voting machines are not allowed, you can only vote on paper and there will always be a paper trail to recount all votes

chrisCA · M

In Canada we have a parliamentary system.
The country is divided into ridings.
A political party will run a candidate in each riding.
The party who wins the most ridings, or seats, usually forms the next government.

chrisCA · M

@swirlie They have gun laws, but they are not as strict as Canada's. We do not have a constitutional right to "bear arms".

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

The UK has a Parliamentary system under first past the post. We elect mps and who has the most mps forms a government.

Its basically like combining congress with the government executive. Imagine the House Majority leader as also the President. That is our Prime Minister.

Our second chamber is the House of Lords, which is a ridiculous amalgamation of government cronies and aristocrats. It has less power but it really shouldn't exist.

You have to register to vote in the UK but its an easy process. No witnesses are needed for postal ballots because... Well... they are not needed cos its a ridiculous Akerican voter suppression tactic. Gerrymandering of constituencies doesn't really exist though the Tories wanna redraw boundaries in a way more favourable to them.