Wow, quite a mission! Well done for going and making your voice heard JD. When I've been to the US, I've always been amazed/impressed/surprised by how much democracy there is - that sounds silly, but I mean that every job seems to be up for voting - sheriff, comptroller, sanitation commissioner, yada yada yada.

In the UK, it's literally just once every 5 years for your Member of Parliament, and a similar sort of time scale for your Member of the European Parliament. Normally local elections for your councillor are done at the same time as one of those, to increase turnout. That's pretty much it.

Our voter turnout is terribly low already - I'm not sure many Brits would bother if the voting form was three pages long, rather than about 6 names long as it is now. Well done for your perseverance!