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We count all votes manually in the Netherlands. Municipalities generally have no trouble finding sufficiently many volunteers to count all the votes. They fill

We count all votes manually in the Netherlands. Municipalities generally have no trouble finding sufficiently many volunteers to count all the votes. They fill entire sports halls up with'em. The only "problem" voting machines solve (and the only somewhat compelling reason pro-voting-machine voices raise) is that the results could be out faster (it takes about a day with the manual counting).

Doxin 8y ago
Note however that unofficial results are out usually the same day. Other than not being vetted yet, these unofficial use (afaik) the same counts the official results use.
taejo 8y ago
US voters have probably an order of magnitude more elections than other democracies. I'm a dual citizen: in my other country, every five years I can vote on two ballots (to choose a party list for national government and one for regional government) and the following year again two ballots (to choose a party list and an individual representative for local government). In the US, I can vote for n state judges, state governor, state lieutenant governor, state treasurer, state secretary of state, state representative, state senator, presidential primary, president, federal senate primary, two senators, federal representative primary, representative, mayor, n members of the school district board, n local referenda, n state referenda. Some of these offices have terms as short as two years (e.g. representatives), or non-aligned terms (e.g., in a six year cycle there are two separate elections for federal senators). While in the other country there are two election days in every five year cycle, in the US I vote once or twice a year, and there are half a dozen to a dozen ballots on each occasion. It could be done by hand, but the scale is very different to a more typical democracy.

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We count all votes manually in the Netherlands. Municipalities generally have no trouble finding sufficiently many volunteers to count all the votes. They fill

by skrebbel 8y ago

Doxin 8y ago
Note however that unofficial results are out usually the same day. Other than not being vetted yet, these unofficial use (afaik) the same counts the official results use.
taejo 8y ago
US voters have probably an order of magnitude more elections than other democracies. I'm a dual citizen: in my other country, every five years I can vote on two ballots (to choose a party list for national government and one for regional government) and the following year again two ballots (to choose a party list and an individual representative for local government). In the US, I can vote for n state judges, state governor, state lieutenant governor, state treasurer, state secretary of state, state representative, state senator, presidential primary, president, federal senate primary, two senators, federal representative primary, representative, mayor, n members of the school district board, n local referenda, n state referenda. Some of these offices have terms as short as two years (e.g. representatives), or non-aligned terms (e.g., in a six year cycle there are two separate elections for federal senators). While in the other country there are two election days in every five year cycle, in the US I vote once or twice a year, and there are half a dozen to a dozen ballots on each occasion. It could be done by hand, but the scale is very different to a more typical democracy.