>This works fine with elections with a turnout measured >30 million people in the UK, which means it works fine for the largest election in the US (California p

>This works fine with elections with a turnout measured >30 million people in the UK, which means it works fine for the largest election in the US (California presidential election). Not necessarily. California will literally have dozens of contests on the same ballot. Here's last year's non-presidential ballot in San Francisco. There are about 24 contests on this, and this doesn't appear to list ballot measures, a California favorite. It's impractical to hand-count California ballots under the procedure you describe given how very long they are. https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/november-8-2022-election-ballot https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/november-8-2022-electi...