Last Tuesday, it was the election day for Americans to vote for the state senate and the congress; so I went to observe that to get to know how people vote and how is the procedure.
I saw people standing and waiting for their turn to go to the next spot to do the vote. It was so simple and easy; people just brought their ID card and go to vote. Eventually when I was observing, I remembered that back home earlier this year, I worked with one of the candidates to the senate of the Chamber of Commerce in Jeddah. It was so different; it was so crowded in the hall of welcoming people to go to vote. The boxes where people put their vote in were not seen as I saw it here, it was in another room inside that only voter and staff of the election can enter to it. A lot of candidates were giving voters fraud just to give them their voice.; for many people and for me it was so disappointing. So it is way different that what I saw here, maybe because we are not familiar to elections especially political elections because Saudi Arabia is a kingdom.
I really like and got exited to see the voting process and I hope I can earn more about it to be hoping that we could gain the experience from the U.S. to apply it in my country.
"People just brought their ID card and go to vote"
ReplyDeleteIt seems so simple
Because I am a registered voter, I just need to go to the poll and tell them my name and they cross it off the list. Of cours I live in a small community, so maybe in a big city it would be different.
ReplyDeleteI guess it depends on the government. UK is also a kingdom but they have elections for example.
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