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> I believe there are people who want results sooner rather than later In Denmark all ballots are hand-counted. It takes about 6 hours from polls close to ever

> I believe there are people who want results sooner rather than later In Denmark all ballots are hand-counted. It takes about 6 hours from polls close to every precinct reporting a preliminary result. Wanting it faster isn't really necessary, other than to feed the 24/7 news machine.

BurningFrog 2y ago
There are a LOT of elections in the US. Where I live we have ~30 different things to vote on this election. So the incentive to automate things are bigger here.
- chrisco255 2y ago
  So does Denmark, why do you assume it's any different? Counting doesn't take that long when you split it across 10K voting districts, which is what the U.S. did for most of its existence. We want ACCURATE elections free from corruption and hacks. You can't undo a fucked up election.
  - BurningFrog 2y ago
    I'm from Sweden where we only have 3 things to vote on (national, county, and city). I assumed Denmark was similar.
    - playingalong 2y ago
      Europarlament too?
      - BurningFrog 2y ago
        That's on a separate day.
kec 2y ago
Denmark has a smaller population than New York City, America is a very large place.
- riffraff 2y ago
  Italy has 60M people and paper ballots, results are out the next day. Population does not matter since polling stations can be scaled up proportionally. I've been in voting where we had a dozen ballots per person (referendums) so this would be more than the total paper ballots in the US, it works fine. Minor miscounts happen but nobody has ever seriously questioned the overall vote results.
  - wbl 2y ago
    Uh no. This election I had a president, two senators, a state senator, a state assembly, a county executive, city council, school board, prosecutor recall, and half a dozen ballot measures. It took four legal size paper surfaces.
    - fsh 2y ago
      Some of the regional elections in Germany have comically large ballots with dozens of options and a very complicated counting system (16 votes that can be split between individuals or party lists). The hand-counted results are generally available by the next morning. There is really no excuse for using electronic voting. In Germany it has been ruled unconstitutional since it cannot be checked by the voters.
    - tsimionescu 2y ago
      Those could easily be prioritized. First count the federal elections, then the state elections, then the county elections. You get the presidential and congressional results within a day, the state election results within two-three days, and the more local ones within the week. Is anyone going to seriously complain that it took a week to find out who is on the school board?
- will5421 2y ago
  Right, so there are more people to count the vote

BurningFrog 2y ago

There are a LOT of elections in the US. Where I live we have ~30 different things to vote on this election. So the incentive to automate things are bigger here.

chrisco255 2y ago
So does Denmark, why do you assume it's any different? Counting doesn't take that long when you split it across 10K voting districts, which is what the U.S. did for most of its existence. We want ACCURATE elections free from corruption and hacks. You can't undo a fucked up election.
- BurningFrog 2y ago
  I'm from Sweden where we only have 3 things to vote on (national, county, and city). I assumed Denmark was similar.
  - playingalong 2y ago
    Europarlament too?
    - BurningFrog 2y ago
      That's on a separate day.

kec 2y ago

Denmark has a smaller population than New York City, America is a very large place.

riffraff 2y ago
Italy has 60M people and paper ballots, results are out the next day. Population does not matter since polling stations can be scaled up proportionally. I've been in voting where we had a dozen ballots per person (referendums) so this would be more than the total paper ballots in the US, it works fine. Minor miscounts happen but nobody has ever seriously questioned the overall vote results.
- wbl 2y ago
  Uh no. This election I had a president, two senators, a state senator, a state assembly, a county executive, city council, school board, prosecutor recall, and half a dozen ballot measures. It took four legal size paper surfaces.
  - fsh 2y ago
    Some of the regional elections in Germany have comically large ballots with dozens of options and a very complicated counting system (16 votes that can be split between individuals or party lists). The hand-counted results are generally available by the next morning. There is really no excuse for using electronic voting. In Germany it has been ruled unconstitutional since it cannot be checked by the voters.
  - tsimionescu 2y ago
    Those could easily be prioritized. First count the federal elections, then the state elections, then the county elections. You get the presidential and congressional results within a day, the state election results within two-three days, and the more local ones within the week. Is anyone going to seriously complain that it took a week to find out who is on the school board?
will5421 2y ago
Right, so there are more people to count the vote