As you know, I am an American who lives in Canada. My absentee ballot went off weeks ago and I don’t think they actually count them unless they need to, but I’m not sure about that. I love Canada, but I generally try very hard not to compare the two countries (at least not publicly). However, we had an election here recently, so as a new Canadian, I thought I should learn how their government works. I think the US might want to check out their voting system. They seem to have it down to a fine art. For one thing, there are very severe campaign spending limits. For another, the election is called approximately 27 days before it takes place. That’s it. Twenty-seven days of campaigning! And lastly, each polling station only has about 350 voters and they vote by hand on a card that is hand counted by the person in charge of the polling station. No six hour waits. No hanging chads, no haywire electric voting machines. I have to say that if the USA did their voting that way, I think I’d be getting a lot more done today. I’ll admit it. I’m nervous.