French Presidential Election Today
Sunday is typically a slow day for blog readership, so I'll just take this opportunity to remind my French readers to go to the polls. Both of you. Vive la France.
posted by Michael C. Dorf @ 12:20 AM
3 Comments:
At 9:57 AM,
Caleb said…
While listening to French radio yesterday (I know, it's a strange habit), I found out that they let their overseas possessions to the west of the metropol vote a day early so that they can do so before results of voting in the mainland are announced (due to time differences and such).
Is there a similar system for overseas US possessions? Would it even be legal to implement in the continental US? (I don't know about down here, but I've heard lots of complaints from British Columbians that Canadian elections are often decided by the time they wake up on voting day).
At 1:54 PM,
Michael C. Dorf said…
Absentee ballots have become much more popular lately in some states -- often encouraged by state officials who see absentee voting as a means of reducing lines at the polls. So this is a means of early voting.
At 3:19 PM,
Benjam said…
It looks like Sarkozy against Royal. I really doubt the French have the stomach to enact sweeping reforms, and that bodes well for Royal. French voters will have to take consolation in electing their first female president.
An interesting article on young French expatriates in CS Monitor:
www.csmonitor.com/2007/0418/
p20s01-woeu.html?page=1
(need to paste link in 2 parts)
Many young people have lost confidence in the economic system and they are voting with their feet. When you couple that with the obvious disatisfaction of the immigrant population, it appears that the economy is serving a rather narrow demographic range.
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