I did not know that. Thank you.

I don't know all the reason kids used to wear dresses but I do know the practice was for general cleanliness. If they were wearing a dress they could just lift it up and go to the bathroom wherever they were. Note that this tradition was in practice long before indoor plumbing and people just used to urinate wherever they were. Privies were generally used for defecation.
Side note, I'm male and I used to like light yellow as a kid with silver then blue as my next favourites. I hated red, pink, and green-brown.

See this is why they should also show a picture of him after he's been back home for a year then compare all the pictures.

Well just from the limited sample size of previous mail in ballot elections held on smaller scale in the US fraudulent entries run rampant. That's not even counting the ones that are just discarded. Here's a good article from the New York Times in 2012 about how bad mail in voting/absentee voting works: nytimes . com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-by-mail-faulty-ballots-could-impact-elections.html We're talking hundreds of thousands to millions of votes discarded, lost, or not accepted because of the failure to follow instructions. I don't think is a good idea is to try and change or create a completely new system when the old one has worked provably just fine for a while.

Mine was though.

For reasons of survival they're more likely to instate a military like society with a clear chain of command and with one person in charge with final say. Once it's reach a certain level of safety and population they'll likely move to a more democratic type government