Why is it impossible to vote on someone else's behalf in the European Parliament? Detailed answer

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Why is it impossible to vote on someone else's behalf in the European Parliament?

Members of the European Parliament vote not with a card, but with their hand, placing it in the slot of a special sensor.

Electronics will count the vote only if the pattern of lines on the fingers and palm corresponds to the one registered with this deputy. So it is simply impossible to entrust a colleague to vote for himself.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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The British East India Company had a trading monopoly in India and, among other things, controlled all of its salt mines, levying high taxes on the purchase of salt and making huge profits from this. To protect against salt smugglers across the country from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, during the 19th century, a customs line 4 kilometers long was built, guarded by 14 soldiers. The distance from each customs post to the next was only one mile, between them stretched either hedges at least 2,5 meters high or stone walls, and in some sections of the line wide rivers were natural barriers. This whole construction was abolished in 1879, when the British government decided to introduce a free trade regime in India.

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