"I Nearly Burst Into Tears" - John Oliver On Voting For The First Time As An American Citizen 

I agree - I'm an Australian Citizen now (British immigrant) and lines in UK get to Maximum 20 mins and in Oz longest I've had to wait has been 15 mins. All these 7 hour lines in US are mind boggling.

@@tobinjc1 20 minutes, cause its compulsory voting in Australia, and everyone has to vote! Compulsory voting gives a better outcome too!

as an aussie i fully agree

Same in Italy, we always have to vote in the same classroom of the same school. It's very quick and very easy, during covid it was slower and it took me 5 minutes to vote

@@fairdinkum977 I agree, 20 minutes in and out. As an Aussie it can be hard to see how our voting system works and then seeing the hardship other face to use their voice for democracy.

I'm American and I live in a red State and that's all I can do, shake my head in disbelief

Many of us here see it, too. We can’t seem to educate the Rrump supporters!

You can vote! :-) I hope you did! :-) Please, and blue ..... from Denmark :-)

I'm American who lived in Germany while serving in the us Army. The European's impressed me on their political knowledge that doesn't seem so prevalent in the average American. I so hope and pray that trump is voted out.

@@velder22 I’m with you. I’m in Southern Utah. 😳🙄

lol That was my favorite.

Ahahah she also called him a "wee ratface" on twitter once

@First Name Far left? lol

It's moot. He's lousy at accents. 😆

It was a joke

Baltimore is Charm City, kinda funny what you did there😄

He won’t, our accents stay with us forever. I’ve been in the USA for 30 years and still have an accent that nobody can place in the map. :)

@@DulceN It's not Spain, is it?

He was also kind of a racist drunk, but so were many American leaders.

I just saw that quote the other day 😂

53% of us voted against him in 2016.

@@ripmomcovid4678 I hope you folks succeed. And it's not politics as usual from the other wall street party.

Winston Churchill would be someone I would have liked to have met. So fascinating!💯 Was his portayal on 'The Darkest Hour' by Gary Oldman fairly accurate? Greetings from MI🇺🇸💙🗳✊🤝

Only time I eher waited longer that 10 minutes was when I went when everyone else did (right before 'Kaffe und Kuchen') and the Ballot was as long as my arm because it was a local election and you can cumulate and variegate in those.

Also, no voting computers as they were deemed uncostitutional because they facilitate vote manipulation.

thank you for your thought friend. maybe America can pass a law after removing the giant orange pimple off its ass , it would be against the law to say the name Trump ever again🤗

@@DDIFCC That sounds a bit like the ancient roman practice of damnatio memoriae where they would remove the name from official records and even physically chisel it out on memorials.

Quiddel well, I think it’s the least we can do for all the fine amazing things he has done for the world😉

It's a Midlands accent, btw - an accent that everyone in the North and the South of the country looks down on 😆 That's why he had to cross the Atlantic to have a career.

@@psammiad the manila envelope taped to a beige wall killed me

BUT, it’s fun when he does other ones!

Or those dimples😉

@@psammiad See all those thumbs up? We're crass Americans, we love him and his accent and we don't care.

@IM KHAN - US elections are controlled by the individual states. 'Blue' states, those largely controlled by Democrats, have more polling places and utilize mail voting quite a bit, while 'red', Republican states do everything they can to suppress the vote in their cities (because most urban areas vote Democrat).

@@wickednwyld Elections here are a federal portfolio. Please do me a favor. RU-vid channel- Vox has a 10-min video on Indian elections please share that with your friends via all social media.

@@balajialagurajan243 - Will do, but if elections here were under federal control, Trump would be making the rules right now, which is terrifying.

@@wickednwyld India has set up A Constitutional Authority called Election commision of India. Parliament, President and Supreme Court can not interfere in the business of elections significantly as it is an autonomous Constitutional institution. That's how Indian Elections have improved.

@SpectroMan Even Supreme Court can NOT adjudicate after poll dates are announced by Election Commissioner till the results are announced. Courts can hear cases and give verdicts but they can't reduce the powers of the ECI.

That's how most Americans have watching America for the past four years. Some are planning their escape and working on ways to get rid of it, while others think that getting hit by an asteroid is gonna bring em super powers.

I’m looking for cryostasis options. Cause like hell if I’m giving Trump power over my will to live. But goddamn I don’t want to deal with him anymore. Pray for us. Please.

@@MsPuffykinz We really are praying for you. Kia kaha people of America. Arohanui from NZ.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Hilarious but true.

That makes me feel... really sad actually. That we are causing that much stress and upset for everyone else

Speaking as an Aussie, I only got into politics because of this election. I don’t even know anything about Australian politics lmao

I get it. I am Canadian and should not know more about the US candidates than my own 🤣

@Colin Deal here in Germany, the politicians have - I think - no more than six weeks for their entire campaign. And I mean, by law. They are not allowed to do anything beyond that. And then I just look at the US and how many ressources they just blow into the wind for their election and what a mud-wrestling competition it always becomes... It really looks insane from an outside perspective. But also, we learn about the US voting system in school, in history, English and politics classes. That's the reason I'm as informed as I am.

Canadian social democrat here, I just voted in a provincial election, and Canadians in general are very politically engaged with our own politics, but, yes, everyone here is waiting with baited breath over the slide towards authoritarianism under Trump (or fans of that, as in oil-rich Alberta) almost as much as are own politics for sure.

We're a young country still figuring stuff out. That's the best spin I can put on this clusterf*ck.

If I may gently point out, the Netherlands is tiny compared to America. Problems are inevitable with our patchwork of states and regulations. I deeply admire your civil, educated, people-oriented country. I hope that America comes to resemble it someday.

Also is your election on Tuesday? Ours is "The Tuesday after the first Monday of November."

@@shadowridge2742 Well Brazil is a big country and we don't have all these difficulties. First everybody is registered when they become 18, the day of the vote is a national holiday, and the voting system is the same all over the country. It's overseen by the electoral justice so parties cannot interfere to help one side or the other. Everything is done by electronic urns and the results come pretty fast after the election is over. So America's problem is definitely not one of size or population. It feels like the system was designed to be messy so it can be best manipulated.

@@NaFran49 Well, I just got told by someone from England that the way that they do it is the best way; a piece of paper, a pencil, and a Ballot box, so who’s right? You or him? Paper and pencil, or electronic systems that can be hacked? And as for our “messy” system? Brazil’s political system is just as vulnerable to manipulation and corruption as ours, so please, no lectures from you on that subject.

From your mouth to God's ears

Great suggestions and that is what my daughter & I did. Everyone was very good about keeping distance & everyone had on masks and we brought water, snacks, entertainment & an extra battery pack!

i didn't know i needed Cher right now 💃🏽🇺🇸

please please please vote him out I cannot take this nightmare anymore

Haha! NO! Keep crying, 4 MORE YEARS!!! TRUMP 2020 🇺🇸

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

same here!

It's been 84 years!

The correct grammar is “their” not them! Try to learn correct grammar, and syntax! Google it!

Literally a decade's worth of changes have occurred between now and then, so makes sense

@@heleneschenbacher8512 I do actually have a good handle on grammar and syntax, but since this is the comments section of RU-vid, and not a scholarly article or resume, I prefer to employ Writer's Voice and write the same way I speak in order to sound more personable and less dry. That said, I stand by my use of "them". You seem to have assumed that I was using "reminiscing" as a gerund (when a verb serves as a noun), in which case it would be the subject of the sentence and "their" would've been correct. But I was using it as a verb. The first section of my sentence is categorized as a heading/caption/label, with different requirements than a proper full sentence. The complete version of my comment--if I'd wanted it to be unnecessarily verbose and hard to follow--would've been "The moment of the two of them reminiscing about [xyz]: when was that?", but I wanted to keep it simpler, so the subject ("The moment") was implied, and the object is indeed "[the two of] them". With the magnitude of unprecedented crap that has happened this year, I would recommend channeling your frustration and sense of justice into causes more worthy than correcting people's grammar on RU-vid. Or, alternatively: *Try to learn serenity, and contentment! Google it!* (I took the liberty of googling it for you.) www.huffpost.com/entry/getting-to-serenity-10-daily-habits-for-inner-peace_b_7184830 www.mindful.org/how-do-we-cultivate-contentment/

@@-EmilyGrace- damn💀💀

That must be a horrible feeling. People do care and they see the madness for what it is. I remember when I went to the US (or rather just LA and NY) and I got so sad seeing so many homeless people. The American people deserve better. I hope we'll all wake up to good news tomorrow.

OK, at the risk of making you cry, love and peace and best wishes to you and all Americans, from Australia. Yes, all around the world we're watching this election, and hoping... We love you, so please, Make America Friendly Again! VOTE BIDEN/HARRIS 2020! :-)

@@papercup2517 This morning I felt like we failed our World Community again, without a November 3 landslide! Throughout the day I felt hope again. We Americans Miss You All!!! Stronger together

Haven’t stopped praying for the good Americans....all our blessings from Africa..we missed you

Watching from Portugal, on the edge of my seat! Good luck you guys, seems to be going well 👍🏻

Kia ora

I'm from NZ literally waited 30secs before I got to see someone 😀 walked straight in.

For all the issues the US has with voting I do want to point out that the states individually decide how voting works for their population and for many of the states it’s a solid process. As a Californian, my voting booth was 2 blocks from my home and it was a 30 second wait. New York City is a unique situation though. Lines aren’t long because they are suppressing the vote, lines are long because it’s one of the most densely populated cities on earth, though it does seem that the city government is a little incompetent on voting properly. That said, it’s incompetence and not malice. That said, Oliver could have voted on any other day this past week or mailed his ballot in without a line. So some of the blame falls on him. I do though understand him wanting to vote on Election Day in person as a first time voter. It’s a sacred ritual especially as a first time voter, I did the same when I could first vote.

Yeah same for the Netherlands. Every school, every elderly home. Some train stations. Last time I voted I was gone for like 8 min. 3 min walk to the voting place , I was maybe 2 min inside, 3 min back home XD. Granted if you go around 6 it might be busy cause everybody who had to go to work is going to vote then. But maybe the waiting is like 15 min or so.

Same here in Canada. There was a voting station on the university campus and I voted in between classes. That was a while ago, though. Not sure how we would have done an election during the pandemic but I feel like it would've been very simple still.

Jesus Christ, I wish. I have so little faith in our democracy. I have a terrible feeling about this election.

@@johnsummers9660 Well soon you will know what kind of future to expect. I hope is is a good one.

I have family in USA I’m petrified for them!

Thank you, David!!!

I knew a David Warren in high school, it can't be you though, he was never this optimistic.

Same in Belgium 🇧🇪

American here. I've never had to wait in a long line either. This year is, how shall we say... "different"???

In agreement with you 100% from New Zealand - *NONE* of us can take 4 more minutes let alone 4 more years of drumpf - he is sowing division and hatred - undermining the very foundation of democracy - usa will not *survive* if he is reelected, please *VOTE* - it scares me how *DEMOCRACY* itself is being undermined in this election - people being disenfranchised - esp minorities - legal challenges to the democratic process itself - undermining stability, unity, law & order - like that incident in texas - my partner was a registered Republican in Texas (he passed 3 years ago) - he was very much *anti-drumpf* then, he would be shocked & horrified now - it is sad, scary and very frightening when the stakes are so high - not just for America but for the rest of us throughout the world - (oh and voting here - literally walk in, no queues - longest experienced was when I WORKED elections, be 10 maybe 15 people maximum about midday - back in the day before we encouraged early voting - we just had our elections, had a nice chat while waiting, 2 people ahead, a family behind - we were *only* waiting because all casting "special votes" were unable to get to our normal electorate - or had recently changed addresses like me - I updated my details and voted on the same day) - oh and voting day is ALWAYS on a *saturday* - schools, church halls - voting places *everywhere*

A big difference!

I find it very weird that in the UK, a country famous for the polite queue, there is no way in hell we'd put up with waiting an hour to vote, but they seem resigned to put up with it in the US! 🤔🤷‍♀️ Do they not like to pay for more polling stations or something? Considering it's the land of 'the customer is always right' service, it doesn't make any sense why they allow it...

I worked at one of the federal elections in the early 2000's in a local voting location in small town Ontario. The instructions were more about what we're NOT allowed to ask when they get to the table. Not even for ID. Just state your name and address; we checked it off. Of course they paired me with a nightmare second officer, ie. they put me in charge, who proceeded to ask half the people those exact questions, asked for ID and wouldn't stop doing it the entire night. It's really very very basic work; no tricks to it if you can take little bits of paper (ballots) into individual piles and count them and write down those numbers on the report. Apparently many people can't so every team is there until they do.

Same system and experience in Iceland as in Canada for me.

I usually go before classes since I'm a morning person. Usually it's dead and I get to vote right away. I've gone when it's busy in the afternoon, I think I waited 10 minutes?

here is a very sad fact. Many states insist on ID, which on the surface, seems reasonable. But we have so very many people who must then choose between an ID or feeding their kids. An ID costs 20-30 dollars, and I can tell you that can be a big chunk of change for many. I once was so poor as a single mom of two, that the $25 bucks for an ID would have meant literally 2 1/2 MONTHS of my food budget at the time (trust me, doable, but your kids don't get great nutrition, and I often went hungry). And it wasn't that I was lazy and wasn't working. I worked a ton of hours, 3 jobs. But my babysitter got 3/4's of my pay, and then there was rent, electric, gas, car, etc. I drove an old piece of junk gas guzzler (thank you, person, who stole it on thanksgiving day)...so yeah. the poor? think on that a bit, then add the high doctor bills just to pay for shots for your kids ($60 bucks to walk into the doctors' office, add the shots). An ID? are you f'n kidding me? I had one, yes, as I had to drive. but what about those that don't have a car, a license, but kids? This world is def not for the poor. Sheer grit and a TON of luck got me into college and a new life. I can now help others. So no. State ID? how about that SS card, Birth cert, or even a dang piece of mail with name and addy along with a receipt for payment of electric bill? Shouldn't that be enough? And after this election of suppress the vote like EVERYWHERE? Doesn't everyone think something is very wrong with this picture???

These overly onerous ID laws in America are holdovers from Southern Reconstruction and Jim Crowe days, when the effort was focused on keeping Blacks from voting, or anyone else The Powers that Be deemed unworthy of the privilege of voting, such as poor white people, Hispanics , etc. there is no excuse for them these days.

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

I am lucky to live in Arizona where, as long as you like, you can vote by mail. I received a text that my ballot was on its way to me. I took the ballot with my coffee, sat down and work on it and looked up more information before I made my selection. Sealed and signed it. Put it in my mailbox. A couple days later, I received a series of texts that the County received my ballot, it verified my signature against one on file, and it was counted. A very pleasant experience. Big thanks to you all spent your time and energy to participate in this civil endeavor. 🖖

Thanks for voting! Having voters wait in line for hours is insane. Not having a holiday for voting is a clear hit against people who have the sort of minimum wages job where you can't take half a day off. I hope so much that if nothing else, Biden manages to at least, by EU standards, normalize the voting process.

At least you don't live here and have to actually live under this nutjob for another 4 years potentially!

Thank you for your moral support!!

You've got this guys We the North believe in you!

Me as a German..

Thank you!!! We need all the help we can get!! 💖💖💖💖🙏🙏🙏🙏

Hell, I'm from Poland and it sounds insane. That should tell you something...

Atleast they get to vote. In my country the votes are already casted when the voter arrives at the polling station. Sometimes dead people also votes. Our government gets re-elected with 90% of the parliamentary vote. My country is Bangladesh if you were wondering.

Right? Same here in Germany. It's completely nuts, from an European perspective, I suppose.

You should come in my country :)) always ends with fights and police :))

This is the first time in my memory, I'm 68 years old, that I can remember people standing in line for hours to vote. I think because a lot of people are just nervous about what's happening in this country and those who did not vote in the past finally woke up and decided to vote. With trump trying to suppress voting measures by taking out ballot boxes, rigging the USPS and everything else that's happening, people are afraid that their vote will not arrive on time or be counted. So people are coming to vote early. God help us if trump gets in again.

"Aaron earned an iron urn"

Agreed!

I´d love to hear John Oliver as Forrest Gump.

Thank you, Angel! You are so sweet! Please pray for us that orange guy will be gone soon.

We weren't really given much choice. It's either stay in line or leave, and the postal service was sabotaged so mail in voting was questionable. I waited to get the orange buffoon out.

@@andromedaspark2241 I know this election is too important! So I get it, but it is just shocking to me. Even in my neighbourhood there are about 5 points where you can vote (voting is on one day here).

@@mondoshredder5783 it was crazy! Still can’t believe how lucky the driver was!

Thank you, Angel Eyes! I've been voting for many years and have never waited in line. We have plenty if polling places and many of us have election day off. I think things are different this year because SO many are voting and only a few are allowed into the poll at a time because of the virus. Also, Im in NY, we hate trump, he knows it and no one is trying to suppress us!

But with such a complete system, how can you suppress voters you don't want to count? :-O

@@Figgy5119 Well that would certainly be a pickle 🤔... I guess they can't!

In my state, Missouri, after registering 2 months in advance, you had to go through a confusing process to figure out which kind of ballot you qualified for based on one of 10 "reasons," then mail in a request, have it mailed back, then fill it out, get a *witness* AND get it notarized by a certified Notary Public (only on one of the specific inner envelopes) and then mail it back. Our state spent thousands of dollars on new drop boxes, but then never put them out and went to court to say that if your ballot got lost in the mail, too bad, you can't have a vote.

This has the same energy when I first saw a healthy relationship for the first time in my life. Yeah now we know it’s not normal 😑 thank you ❤️

Thanks

Well, because then people would be able to vote. What kind of democracy lets everybody vote? Crazy talk, that is! (I'm Australian, we do the school thing too. Elections are always on a Saturday and every school and community building is turned into a polling station)

Similar in NZ. We have polls everywhere and never queue for more than a couple of minutes.

Same in Ireland.

That’s how it has been in the US for the last 40 years of my life. This year and Trump is what is different. I’ve always voted at the school at the corner.

Polls everywhere where I’m from in the u.s., I’ve never waited. I live in a major city too. Maybe it’s the time of day you go or where you decide to go vote.

53% of us voted against him in 2016.

Yeah, try to beat all the crazy bureaucracy that is needed in order to vote by mail in Spain. Easy and great in theory, nearly impossible in practice.

@@danielsabanoglu7036 I do not know about your circumstances. I talk from my experience which is: I only have to inscribe myself in the Spanish Consulate and they just send me everything automatically to my home address with a mark envelope to send back and that is all. They even send me in advance the political panfletos of the parties. Also from my experience I can be sure that the European Post service works just fine. I do hope you can vote next time if it was difficult for you. Maybe contact your consulate. You just have to register as a Spanish citizen in that country and sign the Census.

Same, I live in a violent country where elections have always been rigged. Yet our institutions and democratic process in paper and structure, have been always been the furthest from that slave ownership opprobrium. Until lately with our current dictator, things have always been more functional and humanitarian, no matter how rotten, than the self-proclaimed "free world democracy". Never a democracy, never free either. Just imperialistic, exploitative, soulless, white supremacist, terrorist, bully, greedy, morally bankrupt, villainous, eugenicist, hypocritical, genocidal, mess of a nation playing with our economies and our lives. Manufacturing drug cartels, human and non human traffic; recessions, economic crises, dictatorships, religious extremism, cults, and extreme violence. Ecocides, wars and crimes against humanity. Still they don't deserve that either, not even the buffoonish working and middle class people as well as the people close to wealth, who shoot themselves in the foot. It's their elites who numb them down. The people that alienate, scare, break, twist, and fool them, who are shamelessly disgusting. The US is nazism, it didn't become nazi Germany like some say, it's its source, oxygen and destiny until people grow the fuck up. Until growing some empathy or at least self preserving imagination. So they, like any populist fool must, stop worshipping their nation, their delusions, their criminal laws and rules, and their cult leaders. If not I'm afraid it might be true that there's always been the constant of a good half of humanity if not more willing to sell their mother over nothing. That self-sabotage for the sake of narcissism and pettiness. That pull us down the pit with them to drench in their misery.

The US is like Holly Wood A fasade behind wich you find Cardboard and dirt.

What about the 60 million supporters of the evil orange narcissistic sociopathic lying toddler? They'll still be here even if Biden wins

Cutting out the main tumor is all well and good, but this election will do nothing about the widespread metastasis known as MAGA, which has been many years in the making.

@@reiniervanramshorst1031 There’s a lot of work left to do either way. Tomorrow will tell us whether it’s a terminal or treatable illness.

I described it to my friend today as the opposite of Christmas eve.

Rest of World: just fucking please!

babe. every single person on earth who speaks has an accent. him speaking english doesnt mean he doesnt have an accent.

@@queerbrowngirl9293 Babygirl😜, of course you are right. Nevertheless, John's talk rings way cleaner in my ears than Stephen's 😂. Greetz from Germany.

In the midterms here in the USA that's exactly how long it took me and in exactly the same way.

We need it thank you!

We're in the Endgame Now

Except that the outcome of the US election will impact the world economy...

Pete Mason I’m already on the vee bees ! Lol

Amen. I wonder how RU-vid is going to be, without trump being the centre focus of every video recommended to me...

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

It took them about 5 mins to draw up my papers for the election and the referendum paper as well. The queue was a bit longer, but then I'd gone to a central city polling place on a sunny saturday on, the first day voting places opened (so, 2 weeks before the election), about lunchtime, so it was going to be the peak time - I reckon I queued for about 15 minutes tbh. But I've voted in quite a few elections over the years and every other time I've just walked straight in, no queue. Easy. And no need for ID, paperwork, anything like that, you just vote. It's all so ridiculously simple and low-stress here - the US approach always looks so bizarre, like they almost don't want people to vote at all.

Colorado was easy ad hell. Only 3 states have had standard mail in voting including Colorado.

The last Canadian federal election, I stopped by my polling place after work when I expected it to be busiest; instead it took me 6 minutes from leaving my car, walking inside, voting, and then getting back into my car.

🇨🇦 We just had a provincial election here in BC. Walked in took 2 min to vote and it is the same for federal elections always.

Congrats on your citizenship and your first time voting!

congratulations on both counts!

Welcome 🇺🇸

I admit some parts are really bad however last election as a first time voter didn't find it too difficult. Went to a nearby park office with my paper that told me where to go and it was at most 30 minutes. Afterwards I went to my boyfriend's place to meet up so we could go get some lunch and they allowed him to register at an elementary school to vote then and there and he did vote. This year I hear so many things like poll workers turning away minorities who know they are registered to vote by claiming it expired and etc. Covid tho made it more challenging because I assume that they won't open as many locations as they have in previous years. I completely agree tho "have a plan" makes me think of people who live in heavily populated centers of cities with only few locations open so the lines are hours long. I live in a city but like 10 minutes from the bustling center, where its slightly more residential/mostly minority part of town.

Hi from Australia. I have a polling station literally next door, and there is sausage. How did the Germans not invent the democracy sausage???

@@mycosys I am so jealous! We don't have that here!

For the first time in my life, I’m considering moving out of the US.

The US is worse than most "shit hole countries" in its voter suppression scale. If you celebrate democracy, you don't do that.

Nice I decided on something stronger and whipped up some white lightning... I needed something stronger

I am Indonesian and I love Jameson’s whizzzz. I am nervous for the election. Good luck America. 🇮🇩🌎🌍🗺

Do this right America, and I'll celebrate with a 21 yo single malt (it's the whiskey that need to be of legal drinking-age, right?)... 🥃 Screw up again, and it's a bottle of cheap vodka that could double as paint-remover... just like last time. 🤯

Bottle of Champagne will be popped... Wishing peaceful transfer from New Zealand ❤️🌊❤️🌊❤️🌊❤️🌊

🥃

because that is the way they want it to be

Because a certain political party directly benefits from less people being able to vote and has made it harder to do so

the USA is a walking, talking contradiction of everything it claims to stand for

@Bigfoot this comment makes no sense and it shouldn’t matter how many people live in US. Doesn’t mean our democracy should not work properly. For proof why don’t you look at the comments from people who live in India where there are 1 billion citizens. Our states are roughly the size of European countries - if they don’t have voting lines and issues with voting, why do our states (since voting rules and laws differ state to state here) have so many issues?

53% of us voted against him in 2016.

In Sweden there are literally voting areas everywhere and you get a designated place depending on where you live. There's usually no or very short line to vote and we have usually 80%+ participating of the population who are old enough to vote. And yeah, it's depended on age and citizenship - you get to vote. Doesn't matter if you have a criminal record 1 mile long or some other BS reason. You get a voting card by mail - that's it. You're all set. Take your ID and go vote. The U.S system is rigged to be exploited by those in power.

It's a disaster here. I hate it, and what our democracy has become. I live in a small county in NY and it took me over an hour in line to vote. eeek

@ Lori Yost good luck with that

Also Brazilian, and I'm glad you're one of the good ones, Hereandthere. I actually had to wait in line for about 20-30 minutes in one election, but that was because it was an unusually weird election with many positions to vote for, and people are idiots. Normally I just walk right in, push the buttons and I'm done. And we get the results for the almost 100 million votes by evening. Yes, the US electoral system is a mess.

Thank you for doing that! We do need to support one another during this tumultuous time!

I don't even know if I"ll be able to sleep tonight! This is crazy.

Excellent way to put it! My teenage son just asked me if there’s going to be a civil war. I reminded him that majority of Americans have sense and that the media gives too much time to the ignorant ones, making it appear that there are more of them than there are. The fools are outnumbered. Trump won in 2016 due to our electoral college. The majority of Americans are good, sensible people.

🙌🏻🙌🏻 have faith in our system and the people you don’t see. They are faithful patriots. Even if Trump wins, we’ll get through it together and we’ll come out smarter and stronger. This experiment is resilient if nothing else!

Me too. Utah.

Same here.

As an Oregonian, I LOVE our system.. It's so nice to receive the voting guide a few weeks before your ballot, so you can take your time to research the candidates and measures. When it's time to fill in the ballot, it's so easy and chill that I'm still shocked that rest of the country does not have the opportunity for a stress-free voting experience. Hopefully, after this election, states will adopt the vote by mail strategy. Also, good luck today, fellow Americans

Same here. Live in Arizona and it’s mail in voting as well as in person. Filled out my ballot at leisure and Dropped my ballot off early at our civic center, no lines, no waiting.

First time for "mail-in" type ballot because of covid. I LOVED IT!❤ Will be voting this way from now on. Came in mail, sat relaxed while filling out. Course, this time there was no other options, but normally, there are still ones I might have second thoughts on. Anyway, took it to township and dropped it in box Oct 2. SO EASY!!🇺🇸❤💯 Love to all!! 🌊🌊💙💙✊🤝✌💪❤💯

It's also the case in Uruguay. We voted in september to chose the equivalent to governors. We vote on sundays, you know on the previous days where, you can carry your ballot or find it there. Social distancing and all I waited for 10 to 15 minutes. That night was the first count of the votes, we knew the preliminary results that were confirmed by the end of the week. I just can't understand the United States. However, I wish for the best for you and for the rest of the world.

Same here in Canada

Imagine knowing who won the election before voting, colombian gang

@@alpujugo That is, indeed, the worst timeline

@@soniarocha5583 we postponed our election, usually it is in October but those year it will be in November. I think with Corona lines might be worse than usual but 20 minutes would be kind of pushing it.

Do you know the meaning of the word fascist. By your own admission said the voting practice was free fair and easy for you. Just for your hatred for a politician you are calling a democratically elected individual a fascist. Lol of there is any hate it you and your thinking

Yes the man elected by the clear majority in the largest democratic election held in human history is a fascist. Cry me a river

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

Ya...but how many people live in India? Oh....

@@notlikely4468 1.3 billion people? In other words, roughly 4x the population of the US? Right? Right.

Here's hoping

🤞🏻🤞🏻 hopefully!!!

I usually wait.. there are mostly like 5 people in front of me, so I need to wait a whole 3 minutes! The horror! So I usually do mail-in ballots, the whole process usually takes less than 5 minutes. Greetings from Germany :)

@@funkie1221 German voting helper here, in the last 10 years where I have been volunteering to do this, there was only one time I saw a queue at our voting office and that was because two families with 5 people each arrived at the same time. Besides that, you are just sitting there waiting for someone to show up to vote. No idea how we Germans do it but it seems to be a better system than this American cluster frick.

Same here in EU Czech Republic ... hopefuly Biden will win in the landslide.

@@strausbaughsegarra4988 For a landslide its too late. It will be close and Trump will use that to start a civil war in the worst case scenario.

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

Much love in return! You Aussie's are the best! 💜 Thank you for all your support -- we need every bit we can to make it through the next few days because they're going to be rough.

No pressure..lol. 😂

We Americans love our Aussie friends. We're trying to fix this nightmare!

Ditto from Ingrid at the very tip of Africa!!!

I feel the same, and I also love John Oliver.

portugal crl! ps. assim que regressar a PT vou definitivamente viver para Sao Jorge!

You live in the Azores?!?! Wow!

Portugaaaaal ✌️✌️

My ex-husband was born in the Azores, I remember his mom telling me about live under the dictatorship and how they didn't have electricity and that she was embarrassed to wear shoes because she was the only one of her friends that could afford shoes, she didn't want to be different. Then she said all of the sudden, when the government changed everybody was getting money and electricity and they could buy TVs ECT. Still she wanted to come to the US and when she did as an adult she was so excited by the abundance of ice cream that she would eat 2 quarts a day. She didn't know she didn't know she would gain so much weight because she never had the opportunity to eat this much before.

Room for two more?

Need help screwing in a lightbulb?

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

@@MajorGeneralDiscomfort It's people like you that don't belong!

@@MajorGeneralDiscomfort I'm somehow mentally deficient because I express caring???

@@ripmomcovid4678 So sorry for your loss, Lori. Hugs!

53% of us voted against him in 2016.

Yes

Hell, I'm having trouble sleeping tonight. The anticipation/abject terror is unreal.

Already planning on not sleeping for a few days given America’s current infection with agent orange

I’m awake now.. I’ve not slept in four years

Needed this energy. We're going to get through this together, whatever the election brings 💪

Yeah, in Switzerland, I gave my ballot to the mailman from my doorstep....

Neither have I and I’m in the u.s. in a big city

@@Marciesplash where at bruv

I apologize for my lack of decorum, but I genuinely read “queefed” instead of queued and woke up both my kids and all 3 of my dogs laughing

Similar in India . When I voted for the first time last year during the general elections, I stood in line for hardly 20 mins and even that was because of some technical glitch with the voting machine . And the polling place was a school on the next street . It's easier to get a gun @ Walmart in the US than voting .

I feel the same way. I travel quite a bit and I try not to talk too much so people can't figure out I'm American.

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

I do gotta disagree with this, no offense. But I think you need to be an American citizen to even have the ability to vote.

@@yourfriendlyibecs6150 "This is the first American election John Oliver can vote in since he BECAME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN..."

Agreed, no queues for me either. Two minutes after arriving, I was leaving. Voting, done. Two referendums, done. Easy.

5 minute wait for me at the local disability centre. I thought the early voting was planned and executed very well!

Just in case... What do you think is a better city to move to: Ottawa or Montreal?

@@royrowland5763 Montreal is Canada's current COVID hub and also overpriced. Ottawa's Covid situation is not ideal but the house market is much more reasonable. Good chunk of citizens there are public servants for Federal Govt

Roy Rowland If those are your only choices, then Ottawa. There are lots of nice places, and cheaper, though.

This made me laugh and cry hysterically. Thanks for that, needed some kind of external expelling of nerves. I literally can't sleep.

I can confirm in Australia, almost every school in the country is a polling place, the election is held on the weekend and employers must allow employees time to vote. And a big line would be a 20 minute wait at a stretch. We are all hoping that America can join us and the rest of the civilized world in conducting elections and basically everything else, really soon. All the best brothers and sisters.

And everyone gets a ballot sent home to bring to the polling stations! No one needs to register to vote, when you are registered as a Dutch citizen, you automatically get one

Same in Australia and polling stations everywhere.

@@Royo2013 no voter supression here

Voting in Germany is just as quick. And there are so many polling stations that you usually don't have to "travel" far. So far, voting has never taken me more than 20 minutes (that is including the walk to the polling station, the voting itself and going home) unless I stayed at the polling station (i.e. the elementary school) for some cake afterwards :)

And we have polling stations everywhere.... Shit's not that hard, elections here must be the simplest thing to organize

Same with me. 53% of us voted against him in 2016.

Another reason to be envious of my Danish friends! Our system has been made purposefully more difficult over the years. Then you add that every state has a different set of election laws and it's a big mess. There's a wonderful book on the history of U.S. voter suppression called One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson. It's both fascinating and horrifying.

I DID have a brother like him!

@@robinjackson7882 Lucky you :( want one too