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It is quite surprising that the United States of America, one of the most powerful nations in the world, struggles to hold simplified elections. We’ve gone from having election results the same night or in the early hours to prolonged closed-door counts of incomplete ballots, with the winner being unknown for days on end. And this kind of boring elections with long delays from the “third world” is becoming normal, but it is not normal, and we all know it. This unacceptable contrast was glaringly evident during the recent presidential election in Argentina, where 25 to 30 million ballots were efficiently counted in a few hours. Meanwhile, certain blue US districts, using automatic ballots, take days to count a fraction of that number. How to reconcile this?
Argentina: 25-30 million ballots
Maricopa (2020): 1.9 million ballots
Milwaukee (2020): 460,000 ballots
Detroit (2020): 250,000 ballots
Fulton (2020): 523,000 ballots
Explain to me how Argentina counted all their ballots by hand in a few hours, but the big blue areas of our swing states take several days with machines?
Argentina: 25-30 million ballots
Maricopa (2020): 1.9 million ballots
Milwaukee (2020): 460,000 ballots
Detroit (2020): 250,000 ballots
Fulton (2020): 523,000 ballots
Tell me how Argentina counted all their ballots by hand in a few hours, but the big blue areas of our…
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 20, 2023
The voting process in Argentina was streamlined and efficient.
Polling stations open at 8am (1100 GMT) and close 10 hours later. Voting is done by paper ballots, making the count unpredictable, but initial results were expected about three hours after the polls closed.
Milei went from exploiting the country’s “political caste” on television to winning a legislative seat two years ago. The economist’s words resonated widely among Argentines angry about their struggle to make ends meet, especially young men.
“The money covers less every day. I am a qualified person and my salary is not enough for anything,” Esteban Medina, a 26-year-old physiotherapist from Ezeiza, outside Buenos Aires, told The Associated Press on the sidelines of a Milei rally. earlier this week.
Concerned about the possibility of unreliable elections similar to those in the US, Argentine officials followed the voting process closely. The Politico article explains this:
The vote comes amid Milei’s allegations of possible electoral fraud, reminiscent of those of Trump and former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. Without providing evidence, Milei claimed that the first round of the presidential election was plagued by irregularities that affected the result. Experts say these irregularities cannot sway an election, and that his claims are in part intended to fire up his base and motivate his supporters to become polling station monitors.
Those claims were widely circulated on social media, and at Milei’s rally in Ezeiza earlier this week, all those interviewed told the AP they were concerned about the integrity of the vote.
Perhaps the idea of outsourcing our elections to the capable hands of Argentina is worth considering? That could ensure we learn the results within a day and ease concerns about Democratic cheating. What a shame we have become.
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