Some of the things that used to happen during counting: - Blank ballot papers being filled out by the person counting; - Votes for legislators were done by wr

Some of the things that used to happen during counting: - Blank ballot papers being filled out by the person counting; - Votes for legislators were done by writing the candidate's name: \- A lot of those were illegible so counters would "take a guess" (really just count to their candidates) \- Sometimes the same name could be attributed to different candidates, including from different political sides. Same result as above. - Criteria for what to do when in doubt would sometimes change mid-counting. Counting would take many days even when everything was going fine, so people now would have to make a decision between restarting the counting (and run the risk of facing the same situation a few days down), or adapt for the remaining votes and essentially make it a gamble which side of the criteria your vote fell. - People were tired (again, it would take days in the heat of the summer in a closed room with a bunch of strangers) so they would make mistake. - People just couldn't count sometimes. I could go on...