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When there are multiple simultaneous elections happening in the UK you get multiple ballot papers - one per race. You then put them into separate ballot boxes.
by pmyteh 1y ago
When there are multiple simultaneous elections happening in the UK you get multiple ballot papers - one per race. You then put them into separate ballot boxes. This obviously doesn't scale elegantly to the kind of ballots that go from President to dog-catcher, but you could certainly separate them into pink, blue, yellow, and white ballots and count in parallel.
- wqaatwt 1y agoWell.. yes it is indeed technically possible to count a large number of paper sheets by hand.
- ta1243 1y agoYou don't have to use the same system for the higher risk ballots. A foreign state isn't going to spend millions trying to subvert the vote for the head of "Wyoming School Board 45". When I was at university our student elections were done on computer. 20 years ago. Nobody really cared about them, it was perfectly reasonable, you'd only have to bribe/threaten 3 people to make the result whatever you wanted. If you put the national election in the hands of 3 people though, then you have a major problem.