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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Final Results of the Swedish Parliamentary Election:
In contrast to third-world countries, such as the United States of America, all eligible Swedish voters are allowed to cast exactly one vote each in every election; the ballots are very well-designed, to avoid any confusion; the votes are very accurately counted; sufficient time and resources are allocated to ensure that all eligible voters who wish to vote may do so---elections are always held on Sundays. Each eligible voter is equipped with a unique identifying number, which is assigned in a strictly controlled manner, as opposed to, e.g., US social security numbers, and which is printed on any piece of photo identification, and which is used as a unique key in any database. In the recent parliamentary election, 81.99 percent of the eligible voters cast a ballot.
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