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  • Concerning your edit, not sure about other countries, but I can speak about the process in France.

    We get (normally) ballots with the programs in the mail before the elections, so we can also bring ballots from there. Then the way it works when voting is

    • there’s a table with ballots from all lists that provided them (so missing the ones we’re talking about here) and you can take any number of them
    • then you go isolate in a cabin where you put the ballot you want, or nothing, inside an envelope
    • finally your identity is verified, your vote is counted and you put your envelope in a transparent box

    So there’s not really a way to definitely know you’re voting for an unlisted candidate here.






  • I’m from France, there’s actually a law to force telemarketers to use certain phone ranges, which I’ve blocked.

    During some periods, I have a call blocked per day, sometimes more, then nothing for a while.

    I sometimes have the odd phone call that passes through, but unless I know I’m expecting a call, or it is from a number I know, I never pick up. It’s usually spam anyway










  • Actually, the way it’s formulated is fairly negative.

    It’s written “the law determines the condition on which the guaranteed freedom to abortion is applied” (sorry for the unprecise translation, it’s written in law language, so hard to really translate).

    Which basically means three things.

    It’s considered a “freedom”, not a “right”. While it’s been said that freedom and right means the same, it could very well not be the case in the future. And a freedom can be restricted, while a right is guaranteed.

    “the law determines the condition” means that it can be restricted as wanted by the parliament, so it exists, but could be extremely restricted in the future.

    Finally “women” is not neutral as a term, and voluntarily excludes trans people wanting to perform an abortion.

    Not a lawyer, so my explanation is probably not that great, but yeah… It’s really not as great as it’s said to be.

    Here’s a source for what I explained (in French) : https://lesaf.org/constitutionnalisation-de-livg-un-leurre-grossier/