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I don't get the feeling there were 7 million people counting ballots.. at least not under equal conditions. If everyone in the country submitted a ballot that
by rando444 7y ago
I don't get the feeling there were 7 million people counting ballots.. at least not under equal conditions.
If everyone in the country submitted a ballot that would be less than 30 per person to check.
This doesn't seem to match the terrible conditions described in the article.
- joe_the_user 7y agoThere were 800K polling places, maybe 9 workers per polling place. Most of those would do little during the day. If you transported the ballots to central location, you could wind-up with a smaller number of counters working through the night. So basically, if tasks were divided poorly beforehand something seemingly ridiculously easy on paper could wind-up a complete disaster for a few, at scale.
- JshWright 7y agoTransporting the ballots to a central location would increase the number of miles driven while doing election related work. That would likely increase the death rate...
- codedokode 7y ago800K polling places is a lot. In huge Russia, we have only about 90 000 of them. Indonesia has twice the population, but it is still a lot.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> Indonesia has twice the population, but it is still a lot. Indonesia is an archipelago of lots of small islands, so getting around is a lot more difficult. Per capita or per land area, it's going to need a lot more polling places than some place like Russia or the US.
- IbelieveinSteve 7y agoIndonesia has very poorly developed land infrastructure outside of Jakarta. If you look at google maps, going from one side of Java to another takes 17.4hours for 1100km, note that this is the most developed island, if you do Medan to Palembang it's 32h for 1400km.
- acchow 7y agoMoscow to Vladivostok is a 9,000 km drive taking at least 100 hours.