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In the Japan I walk into my local school/community hall(on rare occasion, the church was used, no more than a 5-10 min walk away), present the voting announcement paper the govt send it to my physical address, and use a pencil to write a name of a candidates on a piece of paper I was exchanged it with my voting announcement paper.

In the Japanese writing system, candidate's name can be written in multiple ways. If writing doesn't match one of the exact registered candidates names, the human vote counter decides if it refer to the unambiguous candidate. If such candidate exists, it is counted to the voting for that candidate.

> There are multiple local party volunteers ...

Same.




So that's why candidate names are always written in hiragana on their posters!


How do people vote who don't know how to read/write?

Japan's literacy rate is very high, but it's not 100%.




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