For me it is the concept of registering to vote. I am citizen so I have the right to vote automatically and only thing I need to provide is some accepted ID.

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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    29 days ago

    Literally everything.

    Maybe I’m just used to my comfortable parliamentary democracy.

    You vote for your representative. Whichever party gets the most representatives gets power. It’s either a majority (meaning that they can do whatever they want because they got more representatives than all the other parties combined) or it’s a minority (meaning that to pursue their agenda they’ll need to cooperate and negotiate with the other parties because they don’t have enough representatives to do it themselves)

    The leader of that ruling party becomes Prime Minister. He holds less power than a president because in reality he’s just the Prime Minister (First Minister among many) but he has more authority than the leaders of the other parties who didn’t win.

    It just seems so simple compared to the lunacy to my south.

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      29 days ago

      Also, before election day, the government is dissolved and the winners immediately assume office after. No lame duck period