Thursday, April 1

International voting in the US Presidential election

An idea I've been mulling over for a while is to set up mock elections around the world to coincide with the US Presidential elections, since these arguably have more bearing on many of us than our own domestic elections. It seems that someone else has had the same idea, and there's now a website where you can cast your vote for the three main candidates. So far about 3000 votes have been cast, and Ralph Nader is narrowly ahead of John Kerry. The results are broken down by country, so you can see that twice as many Austalians favour Kerry over Nader, while in New Zealand the reverse is true. Interestingly the Netherlands is the only country which seems to have a sizable minority (22%) who favour George Bush.

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