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> in a process that involves simple paper ballots that are almost always counted with results finalized the night of the election. 40 million people in Canada
by tata71 5y ago
> in a process that involves simple paper ballots that are almost always counted with results finalized the night of the election.
40 million people in Canada
400 million in USA
Is it the same?
- impendingchange 5y agoHow did they do it before technology?
- hunterb123 5y agoPaper, stamps, and seals. Guess that's technology as well. Before then we just bashed each other with rocks I guess.
- impendingchange 5y agoSorry, I should have qualified it: How did they do it in one night before technology?
- hunterb123 5y agoDistribution. Local counties handle tallying, they report to state representatives whether it's pony express, telegraph, trucks or otherwise. States run their own elections and vote for candidates, electoral votes from states are tallied. Makes Santa Claus look like a bitch right?
- Teever 5y ago40 million != 400 million, this is true but vote counting is an embarrassingly parallel problem that is easily solved by hiring many nonskilled workers. Vote counting is an activity that more or less requires basic literacy and numeracy and Western democracies that have switched over to service based economies have many surplus workers pre-trained for this sort of work.