Well, I’d assume the polling places are in locations with many Brazilians around.
As far as I know many countries allow citizens to vote in person in their embassies. International mail can take ages to arrive and if you want your vote have high odds of being counted having embassies send a bag of votes through their priority diplomatic mail is the safest bet.
With the US being quite big and hosting a large Brazilian diaspora, it makes sense to have a couple polling stations in major hubs. It looks like the polling places are in cities with Brazilian consulates anyway.
But with 2,000,000 Brazilians in the US, the consulates probably don’t have the capacity to host the vote. It’s probably just a minority voting in-person anyway but still.
I’m not arguing against it. I understand why they would do it. The idea is just surprising to me and I’m surprised the article only passed over it like it was common knowledge.
I also find it surprising and interesting that Brazil would go to the trouble of setting up in-person voting locations for people outside Brazil instead of just relying on the mail.
Didn’t know they had compulsory voting. Interesting idea.
Not a necessity. I doubt all Brazillians in the US are traveling to those dozen or so cities they have polling places in.
Mail in voting is all I’ve ever heard of for overseas voting, though I pretty much only know about how the US runs elections.
Well, I’d assume the polling places are in locations with many Brazilians around.
As far as I know many countries allow citizens to vote in person in their embassies. International mail can take ages to arrive and if you want your vote have high odds of being counted having embassies send a bag of votes through their priority diplomatic mail is the safest bet.
With the US being quite big and hosting a large Brazilian diaspora, it makes sense to have a couple polling stations in major hubs. It looks like the polling places are in cities with Brazilian consulates anyway.
But with 2,000,000 Brazilians in the US, the consulates probably don’t have the capacity to host the vote. It’s probably just a minority voting in-person anyway but still.
I’m not arguing against it. I understand why they would do it. The idea is just surprising to me and I’m surprised the article only passed over it like it was common knowledge.
I also find it surprising and interesting that Brazil would go to the trouble of setting up in-person voting locations for people outside Brazil instead of just relying on the mail.