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As an Australian, it's mind blowing that there's no nation-wide agency to run elections. Yes, I know about Federalism, but with states like Texas and Florida around, it's probably best to leave elections the adults in the room.

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That's a funny comment considering how Texas and Florida didn't make last minute changes to elections laws and had their Rally's and counts done in a very timely fashion.

I agree with the thrust of your argument, but for exactly the opposite of the state's you mentioned.

Are you talking about modifying elections as a result of COVID-19? Most states in the union did, including Texas and Florida.

https://ballotpedia.org/Changes_to_election_dates,_procedure...

As an Australian, you have more important problems to solve than lecturing other people about democracy.

Sort of an aside to your point, but Australia is actually a bit of a leader in the rigorous consideration of election practices. Today we mostly think of this in terms of Australia having pioneered large-scale use of STV, but it goes well before that... the predominant voting method used in the United States is often called the Australian Ballot, for example. Australia has a history of unusual voting policies which have proven successful, although certainly some that have proven unsuccessful as well.

As an Australian, I think we can walk and chew gum at the same time. So beyond your pissant deflection, do you have an actual, contributory response to the discussion?

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