• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The population is irrelevant, processes scale. Besides the current undemocratic setup of US elections was designed to deal with a large and spread out populace. Maybe use the electoral college. But 112 million people watched the Superbowl and 158 million people voted in both most recent outings.

    There is absolutely a possibility to have enough polling stations open for 24 in enough places that there is a reasonable expectation that everyone can make it to vote if they were willing.

    I’m not strictly against mail in votes I think it is a generally good system but I have an American neighbour that has voted through the embassy for the elections that came up and has not been in America in decades.