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Voting in America: From Barkers to Booths - Voting can be a bit of an ordeal in America, but that's been true for as long as we've decided to put the chips down on democracy. Before secret ballots and booths, we used to vote loud and proud. Literally. Just yell out the person you wanted to vote for at the carnival. What could possibly go wrong? We talk about all the different voting systems we've tried in America from shouting your vote, to colored slips that were an entire party, to ballot boxes, booths, and even touch on mail-in voting.
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@Dr.Giangy 3 года назад

fun fact: the famous "eagle cry/screech" is actually a sound made by the red-tailed hawk, real bald eagles sound tragically similar to seagulls.

@alejandroojeda1572 3 года назад

That was interesting

@simonmay1671 3 года назад

That was a very fun fact! Thank you!

@ekvgaming9858 3 года назад

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

@abcdef27669 3 года назад

If a giant bald eagle got that size, just imagine the size of a giant harpy eagle from Amazon, the greatest carnivorous eagle in the world...

@Sableagle 3 года назад

@@abcdef27669 ... and ask why they're not available to order from Amazon's "dot co dot uck" site.

@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17 3 года назад

Im not even American, but a bald eagle named Justice is the second most American thing I've ever heard

@Dr.Giangy 3 года назад

what's the first?

@ANTICENA571 3 года назад

I’m curious. What’s the most American thing you’ve ever heard?

@Slaeowulf 3 года назад

@@ANTICENA571 I had a slice of deep-fried cheesecake during a two week work visit to California...so maybe that?

@Dr.Giangy 3 года назад

@@Slaeowulf well, homie, pal, my man, have you ever heard of deep-fried butter and would it surprise you to know an american invented it?

@lrminer2024 3 года назад

@@Slaeowulf that's not even notable. Get back to me when you have some deep fried ice cream on a stick

@shawnheatherly 3 года назад

I had no idea that people used to just have to publicly declare who they were voting for. I can only imagine how many fights broke out thanks to that system.

@TheDisorganizedNerd 3 года назад

simple. you have a gun

@TheDiloEmpire 3 года назад

Um that's called murder

@TheDisorganizedNerd 3 года назад

@@TheDiloEmpire "self defence"

@jameshargrave118 3 года назад

@@TheDiloEmpire No, duels we’re still legal back then

@Grimmtoof 3 года назад

The big issue was if you're boss or landowner (for tenant farmers) had a preferred candidate you had to vote for them or else. Which is why secret ballots are so important.

@thelegendarypandicorn1777 3 года назад

"And due to an accidental wording in its Constitution, women could also vote in New Jersey" Yep, sounds like New Jersey.

@sakanagakyoko 3 года назад

Everything is legal in new jersey

@ATemplarIGuess 3 года назад

@@sakanagakyoko New Jersey got bullied by New York so they just want friends

@AliAhmed-ez2zy 3 года назад

@@ATemplarIGuess I'm a Jerseyan, can confirm :)

@thevioletskull8158 3 года назад

@@sakanagakyoko Everything?

@Windona 3 года назад

Would not be the last time my state stumbled into a progressive policy

@wanderlustwarrior 3 года назад

I'm just stunned by how accurately his stubble is rendered.

@soleater33 3 года назад

U yuh yuh I I yy

@annasun4991 3 года назад

it's quite beautiful

@juanpabloperezgomez4349 3 года назад

The haircut is magnificent as well.

@septegram 3 года назад

Agreed!

@luminoustedium 3 года назад

I assume the suit was Indobeano

@jlshel42 3 года назад

Me in 2000: Wow, it's never gonna get worse than this election! Me in 2020: Oh sweet summer child...

@homeschoolingmadeeasy7798 3 года назад

and we now have 3 SCOTUS justices who were on Bush's legal team

@juanitaperkins4833 3 года назад

I had no idea that people used to just have to publicly declare who they were voting for. I can only imagine how many fights broke out thanks to that system.

@KamsPoliticalPredictions 3 года назад

@@homeschoolingmadeeasy7798 wait, who are the three that were on Bush's legal team

@alexrogers777 25 дней назад

@@KamsPoliticalPredictions Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and John Roberts all helped Bush take the win in 2000. No surprise, all three are conservatives too. George Bush's brother, Jeb Bush, was conveniently the governor of Florida at the time as well......

@goonerbear8659 3 года назад

"Women could vote in New Jersey (until they closed the loophole in 1807)." Of course. Everything is legal in New Jersey.

@emmib_art 3 года назад

I see that Hamilton reference

@FrankDad 3 года назад

Funny joke

@Dartowl1 3 года назад

I can confirm that’s true

@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347 3 года назад

This is what you’re gonna do. Stand there like a man, mr Eacker right in front of you.

@jacobqyv 3 года назад

Other than guns

@samuelmelcher333 3 года назад

6:20 “The KKK and other terrorist militias” Good take

@jonnunn4196 3 года назад

Shortly after the Civil War - that group was one of many similar groups.

@spartanx9293 3 года назад

By sheer technicality I wouldn't count them as terrorists at that point because the word didn't exist but yes by our standards those f****** were terrorists

@rocksfire4390 3 года назад

@@spartanx9293 "were terrorists" no they ARE terrorists, they still exist and they still commit terrorist type actions.

@CaBarry374 3 года назад

@@spartanx9293 That's like saying someone technically can't be called a douchebag because they were born before the word came into use as an insult.

@spartanx9293 3 года назад

@@CaBarry374 what part of by shear technicaliti did you not understand I don't support the kkk

@justinbuergi9867 3 года назад

This would be a rough election if people had to publicly declare their vote

@ScrogginHausen 3 года назад

People do in my area with yard signs. It's about 3-to-1 for Trump and I'm in a blue county.

@tomjack1000000 3 года назад

Any election would. People used to sell their vote in the UK and gangs would hang around and beat them if they voted for someone else or just the same situation without money

@frederik7338 3 года назад

I don't even wanna think about that scenario. It already looks like its gonna be a rough election with armed militias (3%'ers Proudboys and other like-minded groups) trying to intimidate voters outside the polling places. To all americans out there i wish you the best of luck with getting through this election without bloodshed occurring.

@robertjarman3703 3 года назад

Sweden kinda had a problem with that for a while, even up until 2019, where the ballots weren't exactly private, although not nearly as bad as just going up and declaring who you are voting for before a returning officer.

@fryliver4953 3 года назад

@@tomjack1000000 Source on that in the UK?

@iammrbeat 3 года назад

Voting is actually....surprisingly...pretty safe and reliable.

@ChickenLiver911 3 года назад

Unless you’re from the past, in a third world county, or living in a country governed by a corrupt system. In that case, it’s reliable to the point of which your count will, without hesitation, be completely altered or ignored.

@Rabbit-the-One 3 года назад

True! I mailed mine in weeks ago, and the state emailed me confirmation a few days later. Safe and Reliable for sure!!

@angry_eck 3 года назад

unless you are under certain eastern european dictators who don't care for the election

@torellipaolo 3 года назад

Unless you use certain electronic systems that are easily tampered with even by chimps (hint: avoid electronic where possible)

@44-aditimishra12 3 года назад

@@angry_eck Lukashenko has joined the chat.

@Leodran 3 года назад

What really grinds my gears are three interlocking gears

@sexagesimalian 3 года назад

Don't you see? They were making a point about the electoral process!

@eastportland 3 года назад

100% agree. I can see the stress if someone tries to turn a gear.

@jaggysmf1860 3 года назад

indeed, i hate how common it's used

@summerrr6133 3 года назад

Yes

@CrispCrustacean 3 года назад

It is also worth noting that the Australian vote system was also controversial in the U.S. because, despite it being more private it was a de facto literacy test because the ballot had to be read rather than recognized by color. This sort of disenfranchised the poor of its time (Including newly freed African Americans) because this was before the era of widespread public education.

@tonyrainbolt9388 Год назад

In fact it was one of the reasons for public education - so people could read the ballot. Now they are dismantling the education system in various places. I guess too many people read the ballot.

@sierraalice8072 Год назад

I like that point

@allanrichardson1468 Год назад

Third world countries with high illiteracy rates print each party’s or candidate’s logo on the ballot for each office. You’re welcome!

@alvarezandre 3 года назад

Elections in the USA are nuts. The whole process. In Spain, when you turn 18 you automatically are allowed to vote, you don't have to register or anything, you just go with your ID to your local voting station and vote. Also, the elections are always on Sunday.

@eamartig 3 года назад

Imagine having a national ID. Here that’s an extremely controversial issue that for reasons only an American can understand, is not popular.

@MilSF1 3 года назад

Crazy huh? Kinda like how Catalans and Basque all live happily under the Madrid government right? Every country has is peculiarities.

@ZombieDestroyer418 3 года назад

It's the same in Mexico. The ID is even completely free, you only need to bring some documents, they take a photo of you and some weeks later you can go pick it up.

@alvarezandre 3 года назад

@@MilSF1 that has nothing to do with the voting process

@spartanx9293 3 года назад

@@eamartig technically we already do the social security number

@BrianMillerCGN 3 года назад

2:42 "new technologies" while showing gears which would not turn as drawn.

@WindsorMason 3 года назад

Ahahah, that graphic is shown all the time giving those of us who can recognize it a sense of the irony.

@mrmangoberry8394 3 года назад

... ... ... StandUpMaths

@WindsorMason 3 года назад

@@mrmangoberry8394 yus!

@williamchamberlain2263 3 года назад

Gear 2.0 ; new and improved!

@intrepidhero 3 года назад

My brain screamed every time they showed that graphic.

@cnppreactorno.4965 3 года назад

7:16 soldiers are using magazine-fed bolt action rifles, at this time Prussia was the only country that used a bolt action rifle, in the 1860s the US was still using rifled muskets. Off topic and VERY good video and art, just felt like sharing a cool historical fact

@cnppreactorno.4965 3 года назад

@ALSO-RAN ! yeah but those werent standard by any means, in fact the only lever guns that could have been used during the Civil War was the 1860 Henry and the Spenser

@abcdef27669 3 года назад

"It is 1796, and you're going to vote". (sad black and women noises)

@chrismorgan4375 3 года назад

except in New Jersy

@regretfilledexsistance6330 3 года назад

chris morgan Everything is legal in New Jersey

@Ironhold_Watch 3 года назад

69th like.noice

@pjcWizard 3 года назад

I could not vote

@dominicc1426 2 года назад

Also add that during this time, poor whites did not have suffrage as well

@rolfs2165 3 года назад

Paper isn't just _believed_ to be more secure than electronic voting, it _is_ more secure. Just look at DEF CON's Voting Village.

@ElBandito 3 года назад

Florida in 2000 proved paper votes are just as unreliable.

@rolfs2165 3 года назад

@@ElBandito Their weird punch-out system was. Usually paper ballots are understood to be a list where you make a cross in the box/circle next to your chosen candidate.

@untruelie2640 3 года назад

@@rolfs2165 Exactly. Voting machines (including this punch-out system) are a horrible idea.

@o76923 3 года назад

There were decades of stuffing ballot boxes that challenge your assertion.

@Overhazard 2 года назад

There is also how voting for the Oscars is done strictly via paper and counted by hand in rooms where no Internet-accessible devices are allowed. They go to great lengths for voting security (even down to the ballots being split in two and delivered to the Oscars Ceremony in two different routes in the event one of the cars is intercepted and the votes stolen).

@bacon4life673 3 года назад

Thanks for calling the kkk terrorist. Even today people don't call terrorist terrorist, like how the terrorist who tried to kidnap Governor Whitmore where called alt right militias not alt right terrorist, which is what they are.

@nathanielweber7843 3 года назад

Or the antifa communist trying to burn down cities to push a political narrative via force......

@quickshot4050 3 года назад

Yea, just like we ain’t call antifa terrorists when they are.

@angusyang5917 3 года назад

@@quickshot4050 Both sides have their terrorist elements, but from my knowledge, the right often has more terrorist incidents compared to the left.

@mattsw104 3 года назад

@@khodexus4963 the only cities burning down are due to fires from some yt people's gender reveal. The protests have died down since August, and maybe you should bring up what caused all the civil unrest when referencing the protests.

@nathanielweber7843 3 года назад

@@mattsw104 “the only fires are from parties”..... I guess the video evidence of blm and antifa chucking Molotov cocktails in business windows or hurling IED’s at the Portland courthouse are just made up then. All the evidence of their terroristic activity must be fabricated because you said so. And you are obviously more knowledgeable then the locals in the town with cameras and smartphones or the police giving statements. After all, you watch CNN.

@IsaacFolkers 3 года назад

"How's it hanging Chad?" Dang it, you made me laugh cider up my nose.

@joel-uw2lg 2 года назад

Isn't that stuff sticky

@Artur_M. 3 года назад

3:30 "Everything is legal in New Jersey!"

@fasdaVT 3 года назад

Soon weed

@davidmartin9225 3 года назад

Everything is legal in Nevada too, but I get the joke

@giuseppers1956 3 года назад

So where can I buy a doomsday weapon?

@advictoriamsshitposts8689 3 года назад

Except a gun with more than 10 rounds.

@rosesske2551 3 года назад

So the original Action Park.

@heylolp9 3 года назад

I still won't vote as a European living in Europe I can't so I won't

@dionnemcclam8339 3 года назад

they had us in the first half not gonna lie

@ImaginaryMdA 3 года назад

And yet, it's also your climate they're ruining.

@Ethan-cz8xq 3 года назад

@@ImaginaryMdA Of course. That one anti-American

@cinderball1135 3 года назад

Somewhere, a member of the FSB is chuckling (at the idea of respecting another country's right to free and fair elections).

@kangyroo4526 3 года назад

@@ImaginaryMdA it’s everyone’s climate being ruined

@iosonandroid 3 года назад

I just wanna shout out the artist that did homegirl's dreads at 8:45 . That's great styling.

@steele_heart77 3 года назад

Therapist: "LegalEagle riding a legal eagle isn't real, LegalEagle riding a legal eagle can't hurt you." LegalEagle riding a legal eagle:

@underreview5411 3 года назад

Anyone come here from Legal Eagle?

@MrBrainfreeze43 3 года назад

You should check out some of their other videos.

@underreview5411 3 года назад

@@MrBrainfreeze43 will do 👍

@damiang888 3 года назад

Yeah, but I was running away after seeing the "Vote for Biden" video

@johncao6516 3 года назад

Imma go there after this video

@matthew9677 3 года назад

@@damiang888 same

@JM-vq5jz 3 года назад

"How's it hanging, chad" Idk whether to laugh or cry at this joke

@the6ofdiamonds 3 года назад

Yes.

@Herpestidae 3 года назад

As someone who is named Chad, I basically got war flashbacks

@ryanjapan3113 3 года назад

Just curious, What’s the timestamp?

@openthinker6562 3 года назад

@@ryanjapan3113 8:41

@theclickbaitknight7659 3 года назад

3:32 me: "Everything is legal in new jersey."

@DanielKeeler 3 года назад

OK when the time comes fire your pistol in the air this will put an end to the whole affair

@Dartowl1 3 года назад

Correct

@TheEnoEtile 3 года назад

Except pumping your own gas...

@simonmay1671 3 года назад

That one time New Jersey was the bastion of women's Sufferage

@simonmay1671 3 года назад

@Trashthlete Classic New Jersey tbf

@WindsorMason 3 года назад

@Trashthlete *highkey

@Dartowl1 3 года назад

Yup, everything, except ceiling fans oddly enough.

@Wisegirl6521 3 года назад

@@Dartowl1 why

@Dartowl1 3 года назад

@@Wisegirl6521 honestly, I got no clue.

@Blabla130 3 года назад

2:12 That's not the sound an eagle makes, that's a hawk

@donroad9424 3 года назад

the Florida 2000 debacle was a machine problem, not a paper problem

@thatjeff7550 3 года назад

It was a ballot design problem.

@mintythebowler5113 3 года назад

It was a mix of both, the machines couldn't read ballots due to the chads

@finnle5432 3 года назад

Was it electronic?

@CrownedLime747 3 года назад

Still, there was some controversy over the ballot design.

@falconJB 3 года назад

The 2000 debacle was because punch ballots are a bad idea, just have people fill in a bubble we all know how to do that.

@tlotro625 3 года назад

"He must have just destroyed the ring!" Me: wh...oh nice one.

@kevinkerkhoff6670 3 года назад

I'm a bit disappointed that you mention problems with paper ballots, when the problems of digital voting are much more serious

@scottanno8861 3 года назад

Exactly. Never forget Broward County

@twistedtachyon5877 3 года назад

Especially since the one criticism offered with paper (hanging chads) isn't actually a problem with paper at all but, rather, with electronic counting machines. Candidate-observed manual counting totally works, yo.

@sagnal 3 года назад

@@twistedtachyon5877 Candidates should not observe the counting, they should appoint scrutineers to observe on their behalf!

@ekombotok1771 3 года назад

damn guys our voting system is so wack right now they had to get extra credits involved

@USSAnimeNCC- 3 года назад

Their other parties in america but when you vote it only dem and gop and worst the mainstream media don't talk about them

@lprcn2532 3 года назад

donald trump : *wistles as he dies of coronavirus since he voted*

@chaosXP3RT 3 года назад

What isn't wack about the USA? The wars? The environment? The crumbling infrastructure?

@tinker1945 3 года назад

"Jefferson or..." Man, I'm so fucked in the head when I'm surprised that didn't end with "Burr"

@alsatusmd1A13 3 года назад

Everybody used to vote while intoxicated? That explains why politics has always been screwed up.

@homeschoolingmadeeasy7798 3 года назад

before the US, a young man tried to run on policies as an upstanding candidate for the House of Burgesses and he lost terribly--40 to 271. The next time he offered to buy anyone who voted for him alcohol and won with 331 votes. That young man was George Washington.

@anoon- 3 года назад

@@homeschoolingmadeeasy7798 That is the U.S in a nutshell

@aroyaki 3 года назад

First: awesome video! Second: try adding ft."whoever you're collabing with" at the end of the title. I'm not an expert or anything but it does get you a better chance of your video showing on random people's feeds😃😘

@aroyaki 2 года назад

@Mumfy Oh good to know.

@Stoneworks 3 года назад

Here because your cameo in legal eagle was really funny

@fr89k 3 года назад

As a computer engineer, I can't think of a proper way how you could vote digitally whilst guaranteeing the fundamental principle of elections: Secrecy/Confidentially and Confirmability... In principle: Everyone needs to be able to verify that the vote was done correctly without mistakes or fraud. And this needs to be possible without needing every voter to disclose what he voted for...

@TheeBohemian 2 года назад

The double-edged sword of the secret ballot is while it does offer privacy to the voter without necessarily the guarantee of security from political-ideological reprisals based on one's candidate selection, this selfsame method of not recording vote result alongside voter identity nor public disclosing the identity of the voter of the vote in question makes verification of any ballot nonobjective and the process susceptible to such forms of voter fraud as ballot-stuffing, perfidious declaration of valid ballots being declared invalid, blank ballots being filled out after being cast, as well as undercounting and overcounting, especially if the tally of the cast votes is conducted away from public observation.

@fr89k 2 года назад

@@TheeBohemian In good democratic systems you can be in the voting office the whole day. You can see the empty boxes in the morning before they get sealed and you can see how they are sorted and counted. If you had enough people, you could observe the process in every office and thus you would detect any attempt of manipulation.

@TheeBohemian 2 года назад

@@fr89k Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

@fr89k 2 года назад

@@TheeBohemian That's the point: Everyone who wants to do it can observe the elections. You are only limited by the fact that you can't be in all voting offices at the same time. However, if you find enough like-minded and trustworthy people you can create your own election observing network and check the procedure as exhaustive as you have men or women available...

@junichis.5097 3 года назад

"Away home, Justice!" I love LE.

@TycoonTitian01 3 года назад

My school day ends in two minutes, so perfect timing!

@walterkennedy9474 3 года назад

My school day is going on right now

@owensharnas8528 3 года назад

Mine ends in fourty but I’m going to watch this anyways

@Idk-hj9nk 3 года назад

I still got 2 hours of school and I’m watching in my lunch break

@mr.pizzapanda7054 3 года назад

2:22 I really liked the way they slipped in a LOTR reference 😂

@ianbrewster8934 3 года назад

I think hands down you have the best channel on RU-vid. This is what educational videos are supposed to be.

@druid_zephyrus 3 года назад

A Crossover between two of my favorite channels!!! Yes! And even in Cartoon form, that suit and tie are top notch.

@kenster8270 3 года назад

And a perfect topic for them to collaborate on!

@mukundviswanadha1687 3 года назад

Seeing LegalEagle here was a pleasant surprise

@Roxor128 3 года назад

Elections in Australia are done entirely on paper. You get two ballot papers to fill out (house of representatives and senate) and are provided with pencils to do so with. No machines of any kind, electronic or otherwise.

@ThePiachu 3 года назад

2:13 - that's a red-tailed hawk sound, would be nice to use actual eagle sounds to help educate people on how a bald eagle actually sounds :)

@ThePiachu 3 года назад

@Josh Field Well, that's what was picked as the national bird, so that's what US is stuck with until that's changed or someone invents a different sounding bald eagle.

@SolStJohn 3 года назад

"...and, due to an accidental wording in its constitution, women could also vote in New Jersey." Everything is legal in New Jersey.

@CrystalBrightz 3 года назад

"Play it close to the vest."

@Rabbit-the-One 3 года назад

You're a crisp Tuesday morning. You don't know me! YOU AREN'T MY REAL DAD!!!

@marts8712 3 года назад

1:39 Why is your cat driving and how did she park so bad to get so many?

@Tristan-Raisch 3 года назад

Hold up, Legal Eagle dropping in on an EH video? That’s gonna be a thumbs up from me.

@ThinkBeyondTheBox 3 года назад

Same here. I am a big fan of his work

@Jay-qe8kx 3 года назад

Extra credits apeared in legal eagal's new video too

@Tristan-Raisch 3 года назад

@@Jay-qe8kx Why yes Matt did. It was a good day for my Subscriptions tab.

@typacsk 3 года назад

He just showed up on one of Lindsay Ellis' videos, too :)

@Felkon 3 года назад

i voted for Ceasar. Ceasar did nothing wrong

@ArkadiBolschek 3 года назад

He certainly hasn't fucked anything up in the last 2000 years or so.

@justm6712 3 года назад

ave, true to ceaser

@WackoMcGoose 3 года назад

"Everything is legal in New Jersey" Mwah! Goodnight, everybody!

@yi_olde_fashioned 3 года назад

Sadly I am not of age to vote for this election, but I will be dedicating my time being a Poll Manager for my precinct!

@teucer915 3 года назад

I'm from North Carolina where, in living memory, there used to be a tradition in local elections where an event would be thrown where both candidates are invited, stages are set up on opposite sides of the space, and they give their stump speeches - all while their staffers served free barbecue, and of course you're going within earshot of both speeches to test who has the better barbecue, and of course they both hire the best cook they can so as to entice you to listen more to theirs. I want that to make a comeback, although if it does I'm bringing earplugs.

@jasminemiller7485 2 года назад

Huh. That sounds like a great idea. Remind me to pitch this for midterms this year

@joeybroda9167 3 года назад

That's a funky ballot box. In Canada, we still use paper slips and a cardboard box. Your ballot was a tear off piece with a number that corresponds to the book the ballot came from. The rip off part and the book are used to confirm that there are the right number of ballots in the box.

@567secret 3 года назад

Hang on, an accidental wording in the New Jersey constitution allowed women to vote...? I NEED to know the background there!

@kraevorn7483 3 года назад

The only thing wrong with this are the Union Soldiers rifles. They look like Moisan Nagants or just bolt action rifles. Just saying.

@syntaxerror9994 3 года назад

An unlikely yet perfectly matched colab.

@SECONDQUEST 3 года назад

All (?) Voting in Oregon is done by mail. It's fantastic and nobody has made any issues until now.

@ryanjapan3113 3 года назад

3:05 Maine was actually part of Massachusetts until the Missouri compromise

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 года назад

Dear Mr. Hamilton, John Adams doesn't stand a chance! So who are you promoting?

@charliefarmer4365 11 месяцев назад

“Women could vote in New Jersey.” Everything is legal in New Jersey.

@cafdodo5629 3 года назад

I love early American history. I'd include the hodanashoni confederation in that.

@jorenvanderark3567 3 года назад

Haudenosaunee, but points for trying.

@brandenhenricks354 3 года назад

Anyone notice that the Union Soldiers are using Bolt Action rifles.

@mr.incorporeal7642 3 года назад

As someone who lives in Washington State where we've voted by mail for about a decade and a half now (and where absentee ballots have been completely normal for three decades), all the efforts by the Republicans to undermine mail-in voting has been completely bonkers and pretty transparently just another attempt to put their thumb on the scales by trying to make sure as few votes as possible are actually counted.

@redswift31 3 года назад

The whole point behind the electoral college is so the more populous city centers on the costs cant control the whole country. Because a person from NYC is likely not going to think the same as a person from eastern Iowa.

@USSAnimeNCC- 3 года назад

And we're all equal and american is for freedom and democracy lol

@redswift31 3 года назад

@@USSAnimeNCC- Yes

@general2109 3 года назад

In practice this means that disgruntled white voters in swing states can decided to overturn the popular vote of the American population. It’s given the Republicans 2 of 5 presidential elections without the support of a majority of American voters.

@spartanx9293 3 года назад

@@USSAnimeNCC- we are a constitutional republic with some democratic process's a true democracy would have citizens vote on every law not have representives make them for us also republic sounds so much cooler than democracy

@theoldfinalchapters8319 3 года назад

No, the whole point behind the electoral college was so that the slave states could have comparable say to the free states despite having significantly fewer "voters". It's called the 3/5 compromise for a reason. It's a relic of the past that those with less popular support use to enforce their will on the majority.

@evilproductionstudios9659 3 года назад

7:25 huh. Sounds oddly modern. Weird

@Mrtroop-bd3xu 7 месяцев назад

Not like a certain orange man said that even though it is easily proven fake about what he says and is going through multiple lawsuits

@StarArtGamer 24 дня назад

Things never change

@ifigeniaesprella7909 5 месяцев назад

It's crazy that in the United States it's not required to show your ID to vote. I can't think of any other country that does that. Saludos de Bolivia 🇧🇴

@speedypichu6833 2 года назад

Random fact, the first US election to have over 50% turnout was the election of 1820

@GeneralLuigiTBC 3 года назад

Minor nitpick: that's not what a bald eagle sounds like.

@rylandnewby 3 года назад

The crossover I didn't know I needed.

@jakobtarrasericsson4295 3 года назад

Anyone who is watching this and think of McClellan's accusation of 'fraud' revolving the mail-in-ballots as very familar right now?

@angelhare8374 3 года назад

Yes

@Morningstarmodsol 3 года назад

I think it would be cool if you guys marked the last video in each mini series in the thumbnail or title. I like to wait for all the videos in a series to come out before I watch them and I usually can't tell when it's over except by waiting a month or so after the last episode to see if any more come out. I love extra history, I just have a bad memory and like to get the whole story at once.

@noahtabor9399 3 года назад

I love mythology, history and politics. Thank you extra credits team for making this understandable for my confused family that no idea what I’m talking about.

@michaelsali6721 3 года назад

0:48 IS THAT RENE (PAPILOU) FROM THE FRENCH ANIMATED SERIES LES GRANDES GRANDES VACANCES?!?!?!?!?!?!??!? (The Long Long Summer)

@walterkennedy9474 3 года назад

Who knows? Edit at least 2 people /\ \/

@fandemusique4693 3 года назад

Oh, a fan of this show ? Good.

@Biouke 3 года назад

Houlà, tu vas chercher loin -_-'

@hacksawdragon 3 года назад

Man you could have at least used an actual bald eagle's seagull squawk instead of some hawk cry :V

@failuretv814 3 года назад

You actually continued the last video discussion. I congrat you for this

@edoardoprevelato6577 3 года назад

Holy shit Eagle's cartoon self is simply amazing

@DannyBoy45855 3 года назад

Extra credits, I love, love, love your videos, but as a mechanical engineer I just have to say this: Please do not draw three gears that each mesh with the other two. Gears in that configuration wouldn't work!

@voyager1713 3 года назад

That gear drawing just hurts me on an engineering level

@lecterulyanov3853 3 года назад

I don't remember there being many calls for electoral college reform during Obama's presidency

@nathanielweber7843 3 года назад

That’s because the whiny snowflakes didn’t lose an election yet, and the grown adults just resolved to vote the other way.

@MathAndComputers 3 года назад

I realize that you're probably just trolling, but literally, CGP Grey's "The Trouble with the Electoral College" video came out in 2011.

@______608 3 года назад

@@MathAndComputers exactly.

@chakatfirepaw 3 года назад

Of the 16 states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, 7 of them, (representing 117 of the 196 EC votes in the compact), joined during the Obama administration. 9 more states had one or more bills to join the compact but did not successfully pass one at the time, (4 have since joined). Not only were there calls for reform, there was a fair amount of actual action.

@nathanielweber7843 3 года назад

@@chakatfirepaw the npvic is essentially a call to replace the republic with direct democracy: a stupid idea which would destroy the nation forever.

@ryanjapan3113 3 года назад

0:15-0:19 1. Why does the flag change? 0:16 and 0:21 2. The flag has the correct amount of stars but not the correct amount of stripes

@lkawsome1711 3 года назад

I’m Irish so I’m kinda confused 😐

@USSAnimeNCC- 3 года назад

Just how american voting system is have always been kinda of mess up that all

@nosuslinks2935 3 года назад

America dumb that’s all you need to know friend

@gingerale2131 3 года назад

@@nosuslinks2935 you do realize the uk has the same system right?

@NeighborhoodCrusader 3 года назад

@@nosuslinks2935 We got a funny guy over here, he said America bad so original

@nosuslinks2935 3 года назад

@@gingerale2131 I’m not referring to the actual system I’m referring to how corrupt our shit is lol Sorry for not specifying

@Limrasson 2 года назад

I don't think "your vote matters" and "make sure you vote" is valid while the option to vote as "none on the list" isn't on the poll. When your dinner invitation states that A menu is "turdsandvich" and the B menu is "seagull farts salad" you don't think "I'll go and eat the least revolting meal.", you just don't go to that dinner.

@thevioletskull8158 3 года назад

I'm so happy that Legel Eagle has finally colabed with Extra Credits.

@Armphid 3 года назад

Legal Eagle! The crossover I never knew that I wanted.

@eldarrissman4172 Год назад

5:00, mark didn't such a swaying happen in the execution of a certain carpenter about 2000 years ago?

@undolf4097 3 года назад

People criticize the electoral college for being “undemocratic” as if that’s not the point

@alexrogers777 25 дней назад

Then it deserves even more criticism for being bad on purpose.

@jasongibson1225 3 года назад

I've come up with a theory. I believe that social media has made politics more partisan not just by distributing misinformation more easily, but by also the popularity of public candidate and party support. It seems to be true to American history, the more public we are about our vote, the more partisan we become. Now and days, people don't care about keeping their political affiliation private and I think we suffer from identity politics for it. Remember folks, the voting booth was created for a reason. No need to be loud about political support. Geez we are getting to a point were we might just do away with the booth because people themselves want to know who is voting who.

@perunajunior1315 3 года назад

Please,please! Do an episode of the winter war. The great war where tiny finland killed lots of soviets

@Sponggee 3 года назад

Yes

@spartanx9293 3 года назад

And lost

@johnwarosa8972 3 года назад

die red boi fin boi better

@perunajunior1315 3 года назад

@@spartanx9293 yes they lost but it is still a huge symbolic victory

@spartanx9293 3 года назад

@@johnwarosa8972 oh I hate soviets ad much as the next guy but finland is more like the Soviet Union equivalent to the war un Afghanistan rather than their vietam (ironically their equivalent to vietnam is their war in Afghanistan)

@jonathanfaber3291 3 года назад

that LOTR gag was amazing

@Malysitos 3 года назад

8:41 Heh, love the hanging chad joke

@MonkeyJedi99 3 года назад

Your graphic for the state of technology in voting is three interlocked gears that will not move. How apt. And a paper ballot, marked and not punched, is superior.

@JosephKerr27 3 года назад

Legal Eagle and Extra Credits! What a team-up!

@Cascades663 3 года назад

best crossover on RU-vid.

@linkesocke4533 3 года назад

Great video. I am not from the US and it was quite interesting to learn all those things about how people voted back in the day. And I really like the LeagleEagle cameo, too. He does some good stuff.