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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLe Pen vs. Macron - today's pics
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Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte Trogneux
Nicolas Sarkozy
Le Touquet, France
London
New Caledonia
Jerusalem
Hong Kong
French Guiana
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Le Pen vs. Macron - today's pics (Original Post)
dalton99a
May 2017
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drray23
(7,627 posts)1. eheh sarkozy looks like he is at a funeral.nt.
drray23
(7,627 posts)2. also notice we vote with paper ballots
that we put inside an envelope. No hanging chads, no compromised electronic voting machine.
Botany
(70,483 posts)3. hand counted paper ballots
JDC
(10,125 posts)4. On a Sunday, to maximize turnout...
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)5. Why can't we have voting like this??!?!!! It just makes SENSE.
-- paper voting in an envelope
-- hand counted
-- no machines
-- on a SUNDAY
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)7. Well...
that would be why, it makes sense.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)8. And would be difficult to fix results. Arrrrgh!!!!
We need to have legislators to make a stand on this.
Neema
(1,151 posts)11. And Russians can't hack into ballot boxes that aren't electronic.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)13. +1,000!!!
oasis
(49,370 posts)12. Back to paper ballots. I don't care how long it takes for the results
to be announced. Since Americans are irritated by being stuck with an ass for president and have to wait years for a remedy, they surely can wait a day or two for election results.
MFM008
(19,804 posts)6. No electoral bullshit
The person with the vote WINS.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)9. These people look like they take their democracy seriously.
Paper ballots. Voting on a weekend.
***Sigh***
We look like a banana republic in comparison.
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)10. They do because
they have had to root out fascism in the past, many still remember that.