I gather you've never seen an Australian senate vote. There are so many candidates, we have hit the limit of the printing presses (a ballot paper 1.2m or so wi

I gather you've never seen an Australian senate vote. There are so many candidates, we have hit the limit of the printing presses (a ballot paper 1.2m or so wide). No doubt that width seem reasonable at the time at it is wider than the ballot boxes - so you get a ballot paper can't actually lie flat. Sadly that wasn't enough to fix the problem, so that had to shrink the font used. In fact that shrank it so much people could no longer read it, so they issued a magnifying glass with each paper. Just so you have the picture clear in your mind: the ballot paper is so big it won't fit in the ballot box, ad the writing on it so small they issues magnifying glasses. Seeing all candidates names is literally impossible. http://www.abc.net.au/news/6870332 http://www.abc.net.au/news/6870332 Now onto the next step. The voting system is so complex, the outcome it's known for at least a month. As this is Australia they do use computers but someone has to accurately enter all those marks on a paper that has to be read with a magnifying glass. So while electronic voting may not make much sense where you live, there are places in the work where it is the only sane option.