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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Depends on the country though. In France you must be registered to vote (you’re assigned a specific voting office). It’s a single registration foe everything, not for each vote

    Although the process is online, and takes like 5mins.

    You also get a voting card, but it’s technically optional, it just speeds up the process in the voting office.








  • It seemed to have been a bet that the left would be completely divided so that he could place his party as the defender against the far right in order to get an absolute majority (he only had a relative majority until now)

    That didn’t work because the left parties managed to create a united front in less than a week.

    But let’s not forget the following: yes, the left parties have a relative majority (or at least should given the last estimations), but the far right did gain a lot of seats in the elections compared to last time. So yeah it could have been worse, but it’s not exactly a comfortable situation either








  • Concerning your edit, not sure about other countries, but I can speak about the process in France.

    We get (normally) ballots with the programs in the mail before the elections, so we can also bring ballots from there. Then the way it works when voting is

    • there’s a table with ballots from all lists that provided them (so missing the ones we’re talking about here) and you can take any number of them
    • then you go isolate in a cabin where you put the ballot you want, or nothing, inside an envelope
    • finally your identity is verified, your vote is counted and you put your envelope in a transparent box

    So there’s not really a way to definitely know you’re voting for an unlisted candidate here.