We are like Mole and the UK as well. We have the high tech pencil (usually fastened by a piece of string to the booth) and the ballot papers with the boxes with the names next to them. Except we mark the boxes with numbers, starting from 1 in order of preference (we have preferential voting in Australia). The votes are stuffed into a big cardboard box and then they are counted by hand.

If you don't want to vote - you can skip it and get fined (by law you have to vote or give a reason why you couldn't - to avoid the fine), or you can deface your ballot paper in any way you want in which case it's counted as "informal". Voting is always on a saturday.

We don't vote on Police Commissioners etc, we only vote on our local/state and federal representative and also our senate representative. On the odd occasion (and it's not often) we also get to vote in a referendum (done same time as federal).

Still doesn't take long to vote.. unless you get caught out by going at a popular time and have a long line to get in.

I've heard stories about there being 1 polling place for 3 precincts. Here in Iowa, as it is in lots of states, they divide up the population evenly by district (there are 4 here) and find a location suitable/willing to be a polling place for each precinct in the district. In some of the small, small towns, it's somebody's living house/garage! So you may end up with thousands of people trying to vote in 1 location. With, I'm guessing, 15 voting booths per location, you can see how the lines at some voting locations can be long. I know it was a problem that way with the early voting. Myself, I voted October 26, and that was pretty busy then. We had, I think, 70-71% of the eligible voters that voted.

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In Germany every person over the age of 16(?) has a personal ID card that states his name, birth year, address and a picture. It's been this way since forever in both East and West Germany.

A bit off-topic but I have always wondered this... If I've understood correctly US drivers license also contain address as well. So you have to purchase a new license/ID every time you guys move? This sound a bit silly to me. In Finland police (or any other authority) can find your address from their db's and ID cards and drivers license doesn't have address information.

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In Germany every person over the age of 16(?) has a personal ID card that states his name, birth year, address and a picture. It's been this way since forever in both East and West Germany.

A bit off-topic but I have always wondered this... If I've understood correctly US drivers license also contain address as well. So you have to purchase a new license/ID every time you guys move? This sound a bit silly to me. In Finland police (or any other authority) can find your address from their db's and ID cards and drivers license doesn't have address information.

In New York State, one does not need to get a new driver's license upon moving, but must report his new address to the Department of Motor Vehicles so that their correspondence may reach him.  When he next renews his license, the new license will have the new address.  (Other states likely differ.)

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In New York State, one does not need to get a new driver's license upon moving, but must report his new address to the Department of Motor Vehicles so that their correspondence may reach him.

So there is an address, but it doesn't have to be correct, smart. Sounds like DVDP in some cases 

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When he next renews his license, the new license will have the new address.

How often is that? I just checked my license and my renew date is 2045.

In Missouri, every 6 years we renew our license.  If you change address, you are supposed to send a change of address to the DMV.  If you want a license with the new address, you must request it...

Still counting votes in Arizona.

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Arizona issues an "extended" driver license that does not expire until age 65. However, your photo and vision screening will need to be updated every 12 years. Drivers age 60 and over will receive a 5-year license.

Internet voting might be faster, but it would be more open to more voter corruption than the world has ever seen.

The founding fathers of this country thought the the press, "fourth estate,"  would keep a check on politics. But they didn't foresee monopoly of media owner ship by big business. All the major media is owned by big business. Why do think there have been so many Congressional bills to control the internet. The internet is the last bastion of free speech.

When I was just out of school I worked as a a bookkeeper for the Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Jackson County Missouri's largest newspaper, it was a company. To own stock in the company you had to work there or at least have a title. The newspaper fought the Pendergast Machine vigorously.

When there so much power and money involved, there will always be the possibility that something crooked involved.
example: Google dead voters, illegal votes, etc.

World history and the United States history is full of crooked politics.
Even in the latest TV series "Cooper" shows an example of voter corruption.
"Boss Tweed" and the Tammany Hall Machine
Kansas City, Jackson County, the Pendergast Machine that Harry Truman came out of,
he got his revenge, he had the government sue the KC Star as a monopoly and they had sell WDAF TV and radio stations;
Richard Joseph Dale, Chicago, Illinois believed to be last of the big city bosses.

Today the so-called bosses work behind the scenes, Bilderbergers/New World Order.
Remember how Hillary Clinton dropped out of the 2008 presidential race with no apparent reason;.
At a meeting in Virginia before the 2008 the presidential race she was told to forget it.

I'm in Wi and as I was out of town on voting day, I voted early. It was a paper with dots to fill in. We get to see the ballot early in the newspaper, nothing gets mailed to us, or if it did, I didn't see it. When I go to vote on election day, as I live in a small village (1000 people), there are 2 ways to vote, one computerized machine and 4 boxes for paper voting. All the volunteers are elderly so sometimes it takes a few minutes to get your name checked off and accounted for. This year was supposed to be the first year you needed an id to vote, but when I voted early, they didn't want it (Of course, I know the people working, so that may have been why).

As for lines-well, depends on what time you're there. I've gone early and been walked on through, and gone in peak times and had to wait 15/20 mins.

Driver's license here, you're supposed to go and get a new one if you move. You usually have a certain amount of time to do so, like 6 months. You can get fined if you are pulled over and have the wrong address on it if it's been longer, is my understanding. When you get your driver's license at 16, you have to renew it at 18, then after that is renewed every 8-10 years or so. Sometimes, when you're older you get a sticker in the mail, rather than having to go in, but that may have changed.