If you allow people a month to count the votes anything could happen to them. In Sweden we count them in a couple of hours to get a preliminary result and then

If you allow people a month to count the votes anything could happen to them. In Sweden we count them in a couple of hours to get a preliminary result and then count them again the next day to get a final result. The Swedish votes do not pass through many hands before being counted and always during the counting there are plenty of eyes watching them. The exception in Sweden is pre-election day votes which quite easily could quite easily be tampered with if we were more corrupt. The only reason I can see why counting the votes could take a month is to make it easier to rig the election. There is no technical reason for it.