> Whole countries with public counting of paper ballots have election results faster than we do. How many of those countries have as many races on a typical pr

> Whole countries with public counting of paper ballots have election results faster than we do. How many of those countries have as many races on a typical presidential-year ballot as the US does? The US is also generally pretty fast to count its ballots; note that the election result is usually known within hours of polls closing, despite the insane number of races on the ballots. What happened in 2020 is there was an unusually high number of mail-in ballots, and this was combined with several states intentionally slowing down the counting process.