Weird election traditions around the world

[@vfsdm]

Other cool think about US politics/international online culture is the tradition of associating certain candidate/movements with certain emojis like: Yang: 🧢 Socialism: 🌹 Alt right: 🐸 🥛 Buttigieg: 🐝 US Conservatives: 🇺🇸 Tulsi Gabbard: 🌺 Dems: 🌊 Tories: 🌳

[@JJMcCullough]

Yes, that's a good one! Bernie Bros also do this combo to mock Buttigieg: 🍞 📈

[@vfsdm]

J.J. McCullough in Brazil we have those examples Conservatives: 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 left wing: 🚩🚩🚩

[@JJMcCullough]

@@vfsdm I have seen UK Conservatives use this one 🌳 because it sort of looks like the Tory party logo.

[@MaelPlaguecrow6942]

@@JJMcCullough I have the perfect emoji for the Liberal Party in Canada under Justin Trudeau: 🌚

[@Marylandbrony]

We globalists use 🌐 of course.

[@honeybee3269]

That birthday girl rosette totally cracked me up.

[@poe_slaw]

She’s got my vote

[@MustraOrdo]

Wooo, J.J., you go girl!

[@TheOneGuy1111]

She's the candidate for the Birthday Party.

[@markmayonnaise1163]

@@TheOneGuy1111 nice >:]

[@itsroku125]

TheOneGuy1111 this was ahead of its time

[@elliotsodergren2270]

I own a rosette from the UK general election 2019. You can get the rosette if you talk to a campaigner for said party. Also the Exit Poll is also a huge tradition in the uk. It's revealed when Big Ben strikes 10pm. It pretty dramatic and usually accurate. I know other countries have them but its a huge thing in the UK.

[@JJMcCullough]

What is Big Ben?

[@JJMcCullough]

Oh, right, the clock.

[@Speederzzz]

@@JJMcCullough this is way funnier than it should be

[@arwelparry7529]

J.J. McCullough Actually it’s the bell, not the clock!

[@heretic_engineer391]

I was actually surprised to find out that Rosette was considered a tradition; I never even took note of it as something particularly British!

[@CK-ceekay]

I love how JJ manages to be both incredibly polite and scathing at the same time 😂

[@scarletstarlet773]

He's just canadian

[@KittycatKye]

@@scarletstarlet773 Oh, the stereotypes, the stereotypes...

[@numismatistuk6745]

Only true brits understand the real election battle, Lord Bucket head VS Count Binface!

[@canadianmonarchist6357]

Numismatist uk truly the most important election in British history

[@FakeSchrodingersCat]

Long live Lord Buckethead, death to the pretender Count Binface.

[@WillCooperBagpipes]

I’m Canadian and I know that (That being said, I have dual citizenship)

[@Marcus51090]

Absolutely

[@rory4605]

Seeing Lord Buckethead on the same stage as Theresa May at the 2017 election was glorious :)

[@microcolonel]

Oh god, the part where you made the Cai Ying Wen and Han Guo Yu dolls kiss, I needed to call somebody to hold my beer.

[@victorleiva8195]

Hahahaha

[@maxthexpfarmer3957]

They should do that in real life. No, I don't know why I'm shipping two politicians from a country I'm not even from, one of whom is married.

[@hyp3ri6n58]

I clicked the like button so fast, that was maybe the funniest thing JJ has ever done in one of his videos

[@MaelPlaguecrow6942]

In Russia, they have the tradition of electing the same guy over and over again.

[@Vitorruy1]

I laughed histerically at this

[@edwardnigma6568]

Its probably because he is so good at preserving Russia's culture, borders and military might. Hes also really good at ensuring that society's undesirables have no voice and remain completely irrelevant and unrepresented, just as they should be. In America we just let them run the damn place.

[@MaelPlaguecrow6942]

@@edwardnigma6568 Or Putin just used a legal loophole to stay in power many, many times, and made it to where no one can truly oppose him.

[@sudhanvakashyap297]

@@edwardnigma6568 or....rigging election

[@patriciozavala1944]

Between 1929-2000 Mexico had the wonderful tradition to vote for the same party

[@samuelkatz1124]

I went to one of these community meals in rural Connecticut. Mostly lasagnas, homemade chicken soup, and polish sausages (there's quite a few polish people in my town)

[@akshat.jaiswal]

In India 🇮🇳 , after voting, our index fingernail is inked by election officials. This is a very symbolic thing for Indians and everyone display their inked fingers proudly to show they voted. In modern times virtually every youngster post pics of his finger in social media😊

[@nipuniperera9918]

Same in Sri Lanka. Plus I don't know what that ink is made of, I still have an ink spot on my fingernail from ~3 months ago.

[@prashantpandey9082]

@@nipuniperera9918 you could thank indians for that thing. Our election officials developed that to avoid voter fraud

[@irenaevs]

even here in the Philippines

[@prasadpawar7027]

It is done to prevent fraud. I wonder how west handles multiple votes by same person.

[@akshat.jaiswal]

@@prasadpawar7027 it's just a fail safe. Surely election officials maintain a register to note who has voted or not.

[@gametimewithjamie]

in Ireland we just talk shit about the other parties we don't like and drink if we don't get our way

[@JJMcCullough]

Sounds like a typical Irish weekday.

[@theirperfectbrother4156]

We also have a system.that the person elected is the candidate that is lifted highest in the air!

[@maximilienfrancoisderobesp202]

Ah, my beautiful Ireland, lol.

[@TheLoughDuck55]

We insist that FF and FG are different even though they stand for the very same things

[@potatomahonman5008]

Pretty accurate except for the fact that we also talk shit about whoever we voted for

[@josephlance1198]

I lived in the Philippines during their last election season and the tradition that stuck out most to me was having different vehicles going around blasting a jingle written for the candidate and it was usually a parody of a popular song at the time.

[@forbiddenfursona]

and there's always some budots remix of the jingle like 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@noaht8592]

by calling a democracy sausage a hot dog , australia takes this as a act of war against our great nation

[@Tanzadog1]

we'll send in the Emu's after JJ, that will show him and Canada

[@josiahwilkes2013]

Haha , I cringed a little on the inside when he called it a hot dog. LOL

[@teohrex9557]

I'm Australian. We don't call them hot dogs instead we call them sausage sizzle or snag. Also we don't only eat sausage sizzles on elections.

[@noaht8592]

@@teohrex9557 the sausage sizzle is the act of making snags in a public place, a sausage sizzle is a event, the snag is a item

[@teohrex9557]

@@noaht8592 I couldn't have said it any better.

[@hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

Do weird/strange/interesting independence movements around the world

[@leepreston1337]

^This

[@glorytotheaprdeathtotheufl7917]

Meister Meme uh this could be cool.

[@paulmarx5076]

Interesting: Somaliland Weird: western Australia Strange: Jura (Switzerland)

[@northatlanticcommonwealth1188]

@@paulmarx5076 or the English Independence movement as in England separating from the UK

[@vfsdm]

This is probably a job for Paul Barbado the Geography Now guy

[@cassianoneto1553]

In Brazil, we also have some “Democracy food”. Pastry with Cane Juice can be found anywhere near a voting station.

[@Leo-if5tn]

Nao se esqueça do PAO COM MORTANDELA, facilmente achado perto dos sindicatos em dia de votação

[@paulazanellobr]

And popcorn!

[@lucasfuzatocipriano652]

He didn't mention the two digit electoral codes and puns that come with them.

[@danielbruceagra9022]

Politicians like to eat them to show how "connected with the common folk" they are, the Governor of São Paulo pic eating a empanada(called pastel here) is very funny

[@robbicu]

"birthday girl" for more than half the video. I couldn't stop giggling.

[@the8thgemmer467]

In Cyprus for some reason the press calls voting “the people’s holy right,” and when someone has voted they say, “they have chosen to initiate their holy right,” and whenever the votes are counted and the result is announced the elected president gives a speech in a place, usually GSP stadium. It’s also a very common stereotype, for some reason, that the poor don’t vote and the rich do, so it’s very hard for the left to win.

[@CaptianDerp69]

i honestly think Hillary Clinton"s campaign book "what happened?" is funny just for the title alone .

[@Raphaelkungfupanda]

she knew what happened. The Patriots of America spoke!

[@daerdevvyl4314]

captain derp You know what else is funny? I’m not sure if it’s still set up this way, but as of a few months ago, if you went on the Trump 2020 website and looked for something that wasn’t there, it went to an error page that read “Oops! This is awkward! You’re looking for something that doesn’t exist…” And it showed a picture of Hillary standing behind a podium that said “PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

[@brandonbonett6416]

Simple. Everything happened. Seriously, If Trump was running against 2008 Hillary, she would have won, because how popular she was back then compared to her now

[@ghostninja5035]

In the book she basically refuses to accept the fact that she lost and blames various people like Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, and of course, Donald Trump.

[@cswitals]

@@ghostninja5035 she actually states in the book she accepted she made mistakes, but talks about factors outside of her control. It really was the "perfect storm" of crazy things to happen to the candidate that was supposed to win.

[@Frank4SouthMiami]

In Florida, we have "Souls to the Polls" where a number of churches, many in the African-American Communities go to church after mass. Some of the Churches have sandwiches and Mac & Cheese, tea, and cookies post service. Then church members caravan to the polls for early voting on Sundays.

[@Oliver42736]

In Oregon our new tradition is vote by mail. Most people in the U.S. seem to assume it's a really bad and insecure system only used for absentee voters, but over here in Oregon and some of Washington we vote exclusively by mail. I find that by voting at home, you can actually look up information on some smaller candidates you'd otherwise be left in the dark over, discuss with friends/family, and do it whenever wherever. We also have some of the highest voter turnouts in the U.S. and insanely low voter fraud because of the paper trail ballots leave by mail. Oh and not to mention it's insanely cheaper than any polling place.

[@Liggliluff]

You lost me at cheaper. Isn't it free to vote?

[@Oliver42736]

@@Liggliluff you’re missing the point, but that’s ok.

[@fraelikkriil830]

@@Liggliluff transit costs, gas and such.

[@jayteegamble]

The massive downside is that my spouse or boss or whoever could demand to see my ballot

[@artistwithouttalent]

@@Liggliluff It's free to vote, but taking over a large place like a church or a school gymnasium cost time, effort, and possibly money to set up.

[@arkadeepkundu4729]

China: Can we have some civic rituals? CCP: How about you shut up & get back to work? China: Guess I can't complain. CCP: You most definitely can't.

[@robrod7120]

Arkadeep Kundu Oh, china. consistently being a confusing mix of traditionalism and anti-traditionalism since 1949.

[@arkadeepkundu4729]

@GG Hey, I'd take a toilet shortage over bodybag shortage anyday

[@danielzhang2015]

GG a food and doctor shortage is much worse than toilet paper.

[@Marco-lx7nc]

I stayed up to 3AM waiting to watch this vid. Thanks for featuring the stuff from Taiwan! Enjoy the snacks as well!

[@asdfqwertA]

Since election day (voting day) in South Africa is always a public holiday, people have braais to celebrate the unity and togetherness of the country and its democracy, and people all over the country may wear some traditional clothing items of their ethnicity or something with the South African flag on it.

[@philipohanrahan2448]

Ireland has nuns at the polling station, a tradition that is far older than dogs at the polling station, cos it stretches back to at least the 60s. Ireland is also unusual in that it is probably one of the only countries where prominent politicians from another country (kinda sorta not really its up for contention) will actively campaign in: e.g. the Deputy Minister of Northern Ireland Michelle O'Neill campaigned for Sinn Féin in the Republic, Fianna Fáil (a party in the Republic) TDs campaigning for the northern Social Democratic and Labour Party

[@ethancoltrane5754]

Yes, but Sinn Féin operates in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and O'Niell is a member of Sinn Féin.

[@Majnik_]

Fun fact: today is the parliamentary election in Slovakia.

[@11Gotama11]

@Kristian progressives didn't win. Olano won.

[@eruno_]

Did the neonazis won?

[@Majnik_]

@@eruno_ Thankfully not.

[@gigachadgaming6071]

Sad....!

[@historyhub9211]

Who won?

[@SalutExpla]

Happy birthday! To the birthday girl herself ...J.J. McCullough!!!

[@JoanHolloway1931]

So stoked the last general election in Oz, my polling station had vegetarian democracy sausages 😂 Australia has compulsory voting so a sausage defs sweetens the deal

[@Tanzadog1]

Yeah, that is if you have them, polling stations in my city never have democracy sausages of any persuasion ......... so I postal vote, but the AEC won't send me one through the mail .... Shame ...in

[@Talmorne]

I have never come across a sausage sizzle that offered vegie options :c

[@JoTheSnoop]

We have to have a democracy sausage before voting and buy a cake from the school's cake stall after voting.

[@bryedtan]

Australian voting sounds more cooler than the US voting. I heard in some states in the US recently made it illegal to give food or drinks to people who are voting. Yet in Australia you can go vote after voting you can have a Sausgae (TOMATO Sauce and onions maybe with Mustard sounds good) and you can buy a nice Cake Dessert. My the contrast.

[@eoghan.5003]

8:54 "all of you, against the wall" Comrade Bernard

[@aliA-jz5ms]

I love the kissing parts during Taiwan stuff: Smile on JJs face...:D

[@nickthompson51]

I can’t speak for other university towns, but when I went to Ohio State, a lot of local business would offer free food items (with or without a purchase) if you come in wearing an “I ❤️ Voting” sticker.

[@marioponce7529]

In Venezuela, where I come from, the most interesting election tradition is oficial campaign songs by candidates.

[@stproducciones9140]

oh yeah. I'm from Argentina but some tv channels here used to air Venezuelan commercials back in the day. I remember the Chavez ones and finding it funny how those happy tunes glorify a guy in a military uniform.

We also have official campaign songs (jingles) here in Brazil.

[@sominboy2757]

@ america used to as well, but we stopped that for some reason Heres one from ronald reagan in 1984 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/raGtY51ohMikm7s

[@eruno_]

I unironically like PSUV songs 😂

[@purpleduracell]

Oh yes, that was super interesting to me when researching elections.

[@ieceineint452]

In my city in the uk (Sunderland) we sort of pride ourself as traditionally being the first city to finish counting their vote. Although the last couple of election we have been placing second behind our neighbouring city (Newcastle).

[@ieceineint452]

One year we were done in less than 50 minutes

[@markmh835]

In the US, the tiny village of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire is usually the first place to vote in the country. With fewer than 20 voters, they all stay up late and cast their votes just after Midnight on election day. Within 3 minutes, the election is over, they count the ballots, and release the results by 12:10 AM -- just in time to make the morning newspapers on Election Day. Those townsfolk have done this for decades.

[@archie4151]

Lol I stay up to see Sunderland and Newcastle declare the results and head of to sleep

[@maitiu9895]

A civic tradition we have in Ireland (I could be corrected on this on whether or not it is on JJ) is the #HomeToVote; which is because so many Irish people live outside of the country and it is not possible to vote if you’re not physically in the country many people will make the trip back home to just vote on key issues. The 8th referendum on the constitutional ban on Abortion had people travelling from places like Hanoi and Tokyo to vote on it. We also have the infamous election songs by rural candidates which is starting to become a brand new thing.

[@danielgrey5754]

I love the #HomeToVote you have in Ireland. But it seems strange to me as an Australian. Because we have compulsory voting, the Australian Electoral Commission sets up voting centres all over the world. I’ve voted in Dehli. Fun fact, we have a political satirical show called the Chaser here. In one election about 15 years ago, they went to Guantanamo Bay to deliver ballots to two Australians who were imprisoned there in the early days of the war on terror. Since they hadn’t been charged with anything, they were not only legally able to vote, but required to. The Electoral Commission had to recognise this and the two men were sent ballot papers after some negotiation with the US government.

[@hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

9:46 best part of the video

[@bradypostma5167]

I feel like people need to watch from 9:13 for context.

[@rezajafari6395]

@@bradypostma5167 screw context, this is good

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

The part of JJ making the leader's dolls make out never fails to make me smile.

[@pluggy86]

In the U. S. a tiny town in New Hampshire always votes right at midnight on election day, and the media reports the outcome, kind of like Groundhog Day. They always predict the winner, except when they don't.

[@grahamharold1]

one thing i’ve noticed is that in other countries, they like to put candidates’ faces on their billboards and yard signs, but that is something i seldom see in the us, offices big and small

[@SalutExpla]

That intense make out scene at 9:54 may get you demonetized J.J.

[@Marco-lx7nc]

Totally worth it.

[@iskandertime747]

It was so hot.

[@philagelio336]

“I say Taiwanese democracy is here to stay”

[@juanfranciscovillarroelthu6876]

Now kiss

[@awsomemodels]

Uganda knuckles 😂😂

[@Raj-df7wf]

Confused American noises

[@KingDaemonBlackfyre]

And I say Chang Kai-Chek's dream of a united china must never be abandoned.....mwa

[@maxthexpfarmer3957]

He actually said, "sovereignty"

[@goodlookingcorpse]

In Australia, at least in my experience, a 'hot dog' is a specific flavor of sausage in a particular bun, whereas the things they traditionally sell on election day--a normal sausage in a slice of white bread--is a sausage sandwich.

[@dominiquewong4706]

As a Taiwanese, I would like to give some more information about all that stuff. Only the dolls are actually merchandise. All other items are "gift" that candidates "can legally" give to the public. And there is a very straight rule that each item needs to be under around 1 $ (US) to not be classified as a bribe. So we collect all these items from all candidates for free.

[@augustmyers339]

Love the Rochester shout out!

[@MidwestArtMan]

Democracy sausage looks like the “food at home” Mom keeps talking about.

[@aandwdabest]

The fact that you made Tsai and Han stuffy toys made out with each other after they lay out their political beliefs for Taiwan is a fucking win in my book.

[@esvall0568]

Here in Finland we have the "vaalikahvi" election coffee tradition where the candidates always give their supporters a cup of coffee.

[@kerzariz8717]

An election tradition in my country that's thankfully no longer done is murders in the precinct. Lmao

[@theobuniel9643]

That's mostly in the remote provinces though, or provinces with high amounts of Mafia-esque political dynasties rolling around (Abra, most of mainland Bangsamoro, etc.)

[@TheMaster4534]

This is why Second Amendment style laws are still a bad idea here in the Philippines. Manchildren politicians on each other's throats at poll season

[@blue.square]

I've lived in Australia since I was born and I didn't even know about democracy sausages until now.

[@massaman877]

In Australia, it's illegal to campaign before an official declaration of an election. Unfortunately, Clive Palmer didn't get the memo sadly. But usually this keeps everyone sane and it's good.

[@creamofthecrop4339]

democracy sausages? coulda called them “demodogs”

[@noaht8592]

its not a hotdog and i cringed when jj called them hotdogs

[@braveninja111]

Snags Aren’t hot dogs when will North Americans get this

[@thomasatkinson7319]

Lot creepier when one considers that the "demo" in democracy (and demodog) comes from "demos" which is Ancient Greek for people, so that would literally mean "people dogs".

[@owensmith6215]

I'da called 'em chazwazzers

[@daerdevvyl4314]

Noah T Sure looked like a hotdog to me.

[@saridlimon3590]

Here in Mexico after voting, they paint your thumb with ink to prevent you from voting twice (the ink cannot be washed), if you go to a supermarket ("Oxxo" or "7-Eleven") and show your thumb they give you free coffee

[@Germnvzzzlyy]

There are places too where they give you free food! And free stuff!

[@murphyt6tcd]

In Ireland its expected that the winning candidate will be literally hoisted into the air on the shoulders of their supporters at the count centre, and because of our STV voting system volunteers for each of the candidates hover over the shoulders of the vote counters to ensure the tallies are accurate

[@flykope9211]

1:13 I wasn't expecting to see my exact county's voting sticker first

[@whytfbuddy4118]

The Susan B Anthony thing reminds me of the thing where people put penny’s Lincoln side up on Booths grave

[@polski1683]

1:14 wierd to see the voting sticker from my home county in dupage county Illinois

[@sparkIejumprope]

I remember being like 7 and my parents taking me to those suppers and the junior I voted stickers. Those suppers were always like pancakes, chicken, bread, pasta, and sometimes muffins. I have no idea why but this is so nostalgic for me.

[@stevendzik7312]

The Australian tradition reminds of the saying "It's better not see how laws and sausages are made".

[@dezodroya]

9:47 This is the best thing ever

[@matthewroach815]

JJ thinks he’s funny... regrettably, I agree with him

[@ada4927]

“Turqoise is for...whatever Nigel Farage is” I’M SCREAMINGGGG

[@mirzaahmed6589]

I thought UKIP was purple.

[@gryphonpol]

@@mirzaahmed6589 UKIP does use purple. However Nigel Farage had moved on to another party for the 2019 general election, the Brexit Party.

[@rorymoore9269]

​@@mirzaahmed6589he's no longer affiliated with UKIP. But Reform UK instead

[@nuckyduk15]

Denny's usually has a $1.99 election special. It includes most items off of their breakfast menu ( which is 80% of their menu lol).

[@benthedestroyer2476]

Where I live in the US, they have bake sales at voting places. Usually it's at places where older people vote.

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

2:06 Annual Election Day Dinner Elections once every four years *Annual* *Four years* *Annual* *Four Years*

[@samuelrodick6326]

Uh dude, there are also midterms and local elections (many of which are yearly)

[@switchplayer1016]

@@samuelrodick6326 yeah technically there are elections every year. I honestly wish most Americans would realise that.

[@enbyennui]

9:55 ok bit of a look tho

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Truly

[@raphaelbossniak4794]

In Austria there is this (not very unique) tradition that every party hosts an election party where they more or less just watch the reporting of the national news channel and cheer or look sad if they have made wins or losses. Also the national news usually interviews the main politicians of the respective parties at the election parties. This creates this weird paradox where the people at the party watch the news while the news mostly shows stuff from there. Also a little bit off topic: the Austrian far-right politicans (nearly 100% white men over their 40s mind you) used to release songs (mostly raps) as ads for their party.

[@NicolaW72]

It´s nearly the same in Germany - with the difference, that in Germany the most important Politicians since a couple of years usually don´t join the Election Parties of their Parties any longer or only in late night, so that the news can only report interviews with second- and third-range politicians or some political scientists from universities who usually give than statements like: "We must wait and see how the results may change during the evening." "We must wait and see what the Party Committees will decide." All in all something very boring and nobody with buttons or rosettes or sausages or dogs or stuff like this. But the reason of this is obvious: In Germany like in Austria we´ve no direct personal election as in the Anglo-Saxon States or as around the French Presidential elections. You know mostly after the first results were in short after 6 pm how the new Parliament is politically mixed up - and what Government you will get and who will become Chief of the Government, this decisions will be made in long coalition talks, who are lasting often for months. And it opposite to the UK the question, if the candidate from the CDU or the candidate from the SPD or the candidate from the Greens has conquered the seat of the election district of Osnabrück is only very interesting for this special three politicians itself and not a political question from a greater political interest. So German (and Austrian) democratic elections are very different from Media hypes if Joe or Bernie are making the Race in the Democratic Party or if Donald The Greatest will make a second term as President of the Universe (in Austria you´ve at least direct Presidential Elections, in Germany the President is elected by a special political entity, the "Bundesversammlung", and political power is in both countries embodied in the Chancellor, not in the President).

[@raphaelbossniak4794]

@@NicolaW72 I actually think that the only time we here in Austria have gotten close to the typical style of US-elections (you know with close ties, controversies,...) was the last Bundespräsidenten-election, where green-liberal Van der Bellen and far-right Norbert Hofer had this over-encompassing showdown.

[@NicolaW72]

@@raphaelbossniak4794 Yes, that´s right. Austria has this Presidential Elections, Germany has no direct elections into the executive above the level of local authorities - and the power of the German President is even more limited than the power of the Austrian President.

[@OnkelJajusBahn]

I have actually been to a small election party in Austria once. We had no press, just the politicians from my town. And it was fun to watch the results, chat a bit, and have a meal together. I really love the tradition. It is kind of a reward from the party to themselves after having campaigned so hard.

[@sottius]

like in switzerlad: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6S8mGmpjKlreJY

[@lebatien]

Me: *noticing that Mrs. Tsai doll's absence from JJ's shelf* JJ: *pulls her out of the box*

[@SoooooWhatt]

I have also seen the little Tsai in the second flag mystery video. Look over JJ's right shoulder, and you will see the _other_ president of China, the green one who isn't in Beijing: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIapaHaNhdV7d80

[@italktoomuch6442]

As a British person, I had literally never realised that other countries didn't have rosettes or live vote read-outs.

[@jacktattersall9457]

Canadians don't find listening to numbers being recited an especially enjoyable pasttime.

[@matthewmccallion3311]

In Ireland, there's an election tradition where a candidate who has just been elected is lifted up in the air on the shoulders of their cheering supporters 🇮🇪

[@sangeetanarendrasingh5416]

Hey, that happens in India too!

[@LincolnDWard]

@@sangeetanarendrasingh5416 Somebody should contact Côte D'Ivoire and Niger to see if it's a green, white, and orange thing 🇮🇪🇮🇳🇳🇪🇨🇮

[@steffplaysmapping1104]

In Norway, we hold mock elections in the high schools before the actual election. Don't know if that is done elsewhere.

[@markmh835]

Yes, students do that in the USA too. Sometimes even in elementary school.

[@mrpotat7656]

In Ohio we have stickers that say “I (Ohio) Voting” to basically mean “I ❤️ Voting” but using the shape of Ohio instead

[@guscastillo8601]

This may be a late comment, but in the small Idahoan city close to the Canadian boarder that I got to every once in a while to visit my grandparents, they always had Election Day suppers. The thing is, they served Election Day breakfast. It was always scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and pancakes. I love Idaho

[@thesponge3535]

In Kentucky, we have candidates fight it out with their baseball bats, while drinking bourbon, with KFC buckets on their heads, all at the Kentucky Derby. We're a really wild state.

[@JJMcCullough]

Peter Kamacho lies make the Christ child weep

[@thesponge3535]

@@JJMcCullough It is true! I assume in Canada Jagmeet Singh wore a mountie uniform, while drinking maple syrup, with a hockey stick in one hand, while riding a moose just to get some supporters. Canada's a wild country.

[@totalwarfan1945]

The state of New Hampshire does midnight voting where the first votes in the country cast are done at 12am on Election Day. Their are a few super small towns up north that do this and the total vote count ranges from 5 to 24(ish) voted that are counted and broadcast almost immediately.

[@stanbrown32]

Dixville Notch--and I forgot the other place that does it, too.

[@totalwarfan1945]

@@stanbrown32 Hart's Location. There's maybe 1 or 2 more that do it, too. Millsfield and Grant's Purchase, maybe?

[@pachho808]

Where I lived during the 2016 Presidential Election, it was common that the sticker you got was the color of the Party you voted for, and then you give them to your children the day after the election, so everyone at school had Red "I Voted!" Stickers the next day. I had a yellow one (my parents voted for Gary Johnson), and there were like 3 kids with blue stickers. Very Solid Republican county.

[@greywolf7577]

How old were you? It seems like this tradition could lead to bullying, especially given how partisan the county was.

[@Duck-wc9de]

9:47 I was here for copper... but I found GOLD!

[@ArchOfWinter]

Japan has a tradition of campaign flatbed trucks driving around with ads on the back and loud speaker with the candidate's message. The US' county fair visit by candidates are a major thing. The opposite of that dinner with rich people, you eat unhealthy fair food to relate to the regular folks. The US also have an election tradition of closing down places that voters can legally get ID cards that let them vote in high minorities and poor counties. Hong Kong has a tradition of retroactively disqualifying just enough winning candidates after they've won, sworn into office, started working, and demanding a refund of allotted office decoration funds so the pro-establishment will always maintain a majority.

[@davidfreeman3083]

5:50 The new leader of the Labor party, 'birthday girl'.

[@nathanjack86]

I proudly wore my ‘I voted’ sticker when I lived in Minnesota . It was a great way to let my fellow citizens know. Now that I live in Washington State, we vote by mail. No stickers.

[@LouisArnold_]

2:57 Jesus christ, that is actually a picture from my school. What the hell!

[@danielyahalom3961]

Fun fact: The guy wearing a green rosette at 4:46 is Bernie Sanders's brother

[@mixedbag2]

Jack Sanders

[@jonahs92]

@@mixedbag2 Larry* Sanders

[@wbcx4491]

9:45 This would be the best out of context JJ McCullough clip ever!

[@seananthonycamas1785]

For those who don't know that's actually Bernie Sander's brother Larry Sanders at 4:47

[@doomchamp]

That was soo good thank you JJ team you are excellent.

[@Mrhikingbear139]

In Denmark, politicians usually hand out pastries, juice or other breakfast like items in the morning near train stations, big work places universities etc. It is also very common to eat “Valgflæsk” on election night for dinner. This is the national dish of Denmark and consists of fried pork belly, boiled potatoes and parsley sauce. “Valgflæsk” is also a term that is used to criticize, when a politician makes a promise, which is obviously too good to be true and kept after the election.

[@itryen7632]

I think you may have forgotten that during the taiwanese elections... ...THEY FUCKING NADE AN OFFICIAL ANIME VIDEOGAME. ABOUT MEETING THE PRESIDENT.

[@ganapatikamesh]

I have actually been to a few of those dinners when some of my grandparents lived in a small town when I was a kid. I remember they were usually potluck like meals, but the hosting location would have a main dish they'd prepare. If it was in the mornings it was a breakfast so it was usually pancakes and if it was later in the day it was spaghetti. I mostly just remember the food and that usually if it was a breakfast I didn't really like to go because other than pancakes it meant that there'd be biscuits, rolls, and scrambled eggs. Maybe someone would bring other things. Once I remember it was at the church my grandparents hosted and my grandmother had asked prior what I would bring if I could and I said cereal. So she bought a bunch of different kinds of cereal and brought that as well as chocolate and strawberry Nesquick milk....so she was definitely the favorite of amongst the kids. LOL The lunches/dinners would have spaghetti and someone would bring garlic bread or breadsticks and then there'd be a lot of desserts. Those were definitely my favorite! So many cakes, cupcakes, and pies!! A couple years after my grandparents passed away I got invited by a friend who lived in a nearby small town to one. It was actually after the polls closed and they had the television on one of the stations broadcasting the results as they came in. Instead of food, it was an ice-cream social type thing with ice cream sundaes, ice cream floats, and ice cream cakes. They also some board games for kids to play, though by this time I was a teenager so preferred to sit with my fellow teens and talk. I never even thought about these things as rituals and traditions. I have a Bernie Bear from the Vermont Teddy Bear Company from 2016 that they offered for sale. I have a few of the books from candidates over the years, but stopped buying them because of reasons like you cited. I mostly have bumper stickers as those are handed out like crazy at local parades here by the two major parties for all their candidates. They don't even ask what party you are, they'll just hand you some bumper stickers and the kids some candy and keep on going by. You can also usually pick them up along with buttons at the tables they have set up on the sidewalk somewhere nearby the parade or on the courthouse lawn depending on where the event has allowed tables to be set up. I have campaign sign from a Sanders rally in OKC in 2016. It's not often that candidates visit Oklahoma, let a lone have big rallies here. I had gotten one during an Obama rally in 2008 when I traveled with friends, but I gave it a friend who had went who left with nothing I had buttons, stickers, and a bumper sticker. We had to travel to Missouri to that rally, though. When you join the local county party and pay your membership dues you get a little pin (elephant if Republican, donkey if Democrat) that you can wear. I lost my Republican elephant pin when I moved, but I have two donkey pins (an earlier standing donkey design and then the redesigned kicking donkey). I don't yet have anything for 2020, though I did see a friend had posted on social media a store that had Election Buddies I think is what they were called and they made a bunch of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates into dolls like what you showed the Taiwan folks do. I thought that was a neat idea, but didn't buy any since they were usually sold out of the candidates I like/liked (some are no longer in the race). I haven't checked the site in several months, though, not even sure if its still a thing. I think the rosettes are neat. I noticed them when I watched the election coverage on the BBC App last December. Honestly, it's been neat to watch coverage of other places' elections like Canada, UK, and India last year. Normally I just get that news from various local news sources if I can find it and so I don't actually get to see it come in and hear the commentary, etc. So 2019 was neat for that! I didn't realize the I VOTED stickers were a uniquely American thing. Interesting. Also didn't know it started in the 1980s. In the county where I live we use the generic oval one that you showed. But when I lived in a county that's part of the state's largest metro area they had different round stickers that were a lot nicer! I liked them. I also have seen ones from other states since I have friends that live elsewhere and will show stickers. Coincidently, those stickers are used by the local Tribes during their government elections. My previous long-term boyfriend is a member of a local tribe, as our some of my friends, and they often have to vote for tribal governors and other elected positions as well as on ballot proposals. They always got an I VOTED sticker when voting. The same sticker, though, as what they hand out for local, county, state, and federal elections. If they were different, I'd see about getting you one. Same with anything else in the state. Though so much is so "normal" to me that I honestly don't realize it's "unique" to my state or at least different enough to be appreciated by those not from here until it's pointed out by people not from here. A friend from Maine visited and I met him in OKC and he was fascinated with the Bricktown District in downtown OKC and especially enamored with the artistic bison art scattered around. A friend from India was fascinated by how much open space there was even in OKC. A friend from California came to visit and besides being fascinated with the large grain elevators in my home town or the monster bridge (East Maine Street Railroad bridge that has a monster face because it "eats trucks", lol look it up it has its own Facebook page and there are videos on KZbin), one night while driving back to my house I had to stop for some deer on the road near mill in the middle of town and he was just in awe of the fact that deer were right there in town. A friend from Ireland came to visit during the Red Earth Festival and I think we spent a good majority of his time here visiting places that sold Native American things. I grew up around it since my great grandmother was full blood Blackfoot and I grew up with teachers and friends from various local tribes that it all seems commonplace to me that I hadn't even thought someone would be interested in that. Definitely changed my plans for his visit, but he had a good time and I learned he was really into Native American stuff as well as I got reminded to appreciate where I live, so win-win I think.

[@john-vl3mm]

A democracy sausage is a snag (basic beef/pork sausage), not the type of sausage that gets put in a hot dog. A hot dog is made with a wiener/frankfurt and the bread is usually, well, a hot dog roll.

[@martinfawkes595]

9:57 cracked me up 🤣😂

[@IvoryTower779]

In my home town in rural Colorado the community building holds a supper where we have hamburgers

[@patcoghlan3852]

You might be interested in some of the Israeli election traditions. The parties all come out with ad friendly election "jingles", plaster an obscene amount of public space with posters (not that unusual, but the extent of it is), the major parties usually have concerts (the Labor Party and secular centrist parties, being mostly old and Ashkenazi, has lots of Barry Manilow type performers, while Likud, a much younger, religious, and Mizrahi party, has lots of Zionist Rappers and Moroccan themed music), and because government formation is an inherent part of Israeli politics with no majorities, all of the major parties pretend like they won on election night despite blatantly making it up. Pretty fun media driven traditions. The culinary aspects aren't really there, though.

[@hydrogen3266]

My childhood church did pancake breakfasts a couple times a year, and also a soup potluck was the big event. A lot of times they would also have spaghetti dinners for clubs and stuff and fundraisers, but I’ve never heard of it for elections

[@crunch1757]

5:07 in Scotland orange is the more common lib dem colour as yellow is taken up by the far more popular snp but the Snp also uses black in their rosettes

[@Dodgibishi]

In Denmark, at the polling stations (at least at our local one) after casting your vote, you can take a piece of candy from a bowl at the registration table.

[@_saltyvinegar]

The little smile you had on your face after making the two Taiwanese candidates kiss was the funniest thing ever

[@gidi3250]

In South Africa they mark your finger if you voted and a your political party will send you merch like hats, scarfs and shirts. My dad and I where even asked while in line to vote if where not registered to get the political party's shirt because we didn't wear it. Yes they come around to people's houses and tries to get you to sign up for their merch

[@swackswack5406]

Here in Oregon we do a “crab feed” every year to celebrate the election

[@nifralo2752]

6:14 that's my constituency

[@rory4605]

4:46 That's Bernie Sanders' brother, Larry. He's a Green party candidate here in Oxford. He's the original Bernie bro. :-)

[@ciaranreed91]

The best part of the UK vote announcement is seeing a high profile candidate who’s lost their seat (usually one big one an election) having to grimace their way through the announcement live on a televised stage.

[@geznicks]

Ed Balls was the best one

[@killlog-kb3kd]

Happy birthday, birthday girl!

[@gabrielferreira6427]

In Brazil, on election day, whoever runs the candidates' campaign fills the door where the "santinhos" vote will take place (they are like small photos of the candidates with their electoral code).

[@catarinamelchiorgomes8750]

*the floor, unfortunately

[@adrianespinel7758]

It's okay J.J., at least you are the cutest birthday girl, so wear that rosette proudly.

[@rhipuyo]

If you wanna know what happens to Daruma dolls, they’re typically burned after the second eye is drawn on, either on a specific date (such as New Years), or just whenever the person feels like it. I found this out oddly enough through Pokémon.