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This is the system used in Germany, all votes are hand-counted. And it's also used for very complicated local elections that allow very fine-grained votes for i
by fabian2k 9y ago
This is the system used in Germany, all votes are hand-counted. And it's also used for very complicated local elections that allow very fine-grained votes for individual candidates.
In extreme cases you get huge ballots with this system, see e.g. (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurter-wahlzettel-0-876-quadratmeter-14078541/gross-wie-nie-der-frankfurter-14079556.html http://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurter-wahlzettel...) for Frankfurt with a ~0.9 square meter ballot.
Counting by hand still works even for those over-complicated ballots.
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- germanier 9y agoI don't know about that specific one but elections with complicated rules and multiple votes (where you can "kumulieren" and "panaschieren") are usually counted with the help of software where the election officers manually enter every ballot into the computer after inspecting it visually and have to trust that the displayed end result is correct (although there are some manual consistency checks).
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe size of the ballots isn't the issue; the issue with “provide pre-marked ballots from which the voter chooses the one matching their preferences and discards the rest” for multi-race elections is the number of pre-printed ballots that have to be given to each voter to take to the booth and select from. With 5 offices with 6 candidates each and 10 yes/no measures (a fairly modest ballot for a California election) this would require each voter be handed a packet of nearly eight million ballots to choose from. This is clearly not practical.