• imoldgreeeg
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    Even though I care not for the spud, after Trump and the shenanigans about stolen elections, I am proud that I live somewhere where elections are called and there is some basic civility around the gracious defeat speech then the victory speech. This might be the bottle of bubbly talking…

    • StudSpud The Starchy
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      I think we sometimes forget how good it is here compared to other Global North countries, especially in regards to elections, and our voting rights.

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        The book From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage has a great history on voting in Australia and how it compares to other countries

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      He handled that well, I can give him that. On what’s clearly a challenging day for him personally, he’s been quite dignified in defeat

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      It was nice to see a regular professional concession speech again.