Letters | Why American democracy isn’t quite inspiring copycats
Readers discuss the user-unfriendly voting system in the United States and how AI could help improve special needs education
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American politicians believe that their centuries-old democracy is so superior that the rest of the world needs exactly the same, hence their mission to push their type of democracy to other countries. But is US democracy a good example?
When I see on the news the long queues of US voters waiting to vote, I wonder how many more centuries America needs to develop a user-friendly system. Why make Tuesday – a work day for many – voting day? Why make it inconvenient for a certain group of people to vote?
The truth is, if you have a good product, it will be copied anyway. If people are not rushing to copy your product, it means you have a poor product. Why not refine your product first, before encouraging others to copy?
Roland Guettler, Lai Chi Kok
