I don't know about the UK, but in Australia it's attended by the candidates' representatives, called "scrutineers". The counting is done at the polling place, s

I don't know about the UK, but in Australia it's attended by the candidates' representatives, called "scrutineers". The counting is done at the polling place, so the candidates can't be multiple places at once. I've scrutineered before, and it all seemed to work well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrutineer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrutineer