Timeline for How much time does it take for Australia to count votes in general elections?
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Dec 19, 2020 at 4:09 | comment | added | ajd | @ohwilleke indeed. In Australia, federal, state and local elections are held completely separately on different days, and the only offices up for election are lower/upper house of federal/state parliament (or local councillor and possibly mayor in local elections). Referendum questions do occasionally happen but they are rare. With so few offices, we use a separate ballot paper per office. The US on the other hand absolutely needs fully electronic vote tabulation if you're going to count anything in a reasonable amount of time. | |
Dec 18, 2020 at 20:03 | vote | accept | QuantumWalnut | ||
Dec 18, 2020 at 18:28 | comment | added | ohwilleke♦ | Worth noting that such a similar process in impossible in jurisdictions like the U.S. that have long ballots with many different candidate races and ballot issues on them at the same time (my general election ballot this year in Denver, Colorado has 47). | |
Dec 18, 2020 at 15:49 | history | answered | ajd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |