Elections in the USA. Start the guess!

[Olivier]

We here in Finland are truly free and have a working democracy and I hope it'll stay this way.

Finland won't be able to face the US superpower alone...

[pinguino79]

I was ready for W's winning, but just before "election day" I had some hopes, knowing how many young people enlisted to vote; but the millions of new voters were a boomerang: the foundamentalist Christians came out

Now, have some fun:
http://www.sorryeverybody.com

[bhoeyb]

Today, I've seen Fahrenheit 9/11. Now, I'm even more confused about the near futur ... Scary ...

[androl]

@Bogpoet
I don't take that argument. Shouldn't a democracy be ready on election day to let everyone vote? Especially if you consider that this was a normal work day, waiting lines of this kind are not acceptable.
There are lists of registered voters, if the election system doesn't allow more than 50% to actually cast their vote, that is a problem.

(And I really don't think something like this could happen in Germany. My precinct e.g. has only 850 eligible voters and two voting booths. That should be about the same in all of Germany)

oh yes, it did happen here in Germany. It was at the election of the EU parliament, at the same time we had an election of the municipal council, and that one was very complex. Everyone could give about 20 votes to all people he wanted to vote, and each person can get from 1 to 3 votes. We have about 7500 people who could vote, and there were 8 tables in the city hall for 8 town districts. I went to vote about 1/2 hour before closing, and I had to wait in a long line. When the election was closed, there were still many people waiting and so they could not vote any more. And heard a line was there the whole day, so it would simply note have been possible for all people to vote. I think the problem was there were too few voting cabins.