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by unbearded 2916 days ago
I'm very familiar not only with the voting laws but the campaigns laws.

In my opinion, the voting laws in Brazil are not bad.

The US is very different than Brazil. One big difference is that in Brazil the TSE and the TREs and also the electronic ballot are standard. Here, each state has its system of voting and counting vote.

I believe that Brazil's problem is not at the vote, but after the politicians get elected.

Here, there's gerrymandering, vote suppression, Citizens United, super PACs. Very different problems.

But fear not. At the rate the current administration is implementing ignorant, racist and stupid policies, soon we will be just like Brazil.

The irony? The corruption at the highest echelons of the government and people cheering up bad leaders is not what I had in mind when I wished some stuff here was more like in Brazil (I thought more about food and extroverted people).