> I don't understand why you need machines to vote or machines to count.
The voting machines isn't for you, it for the politicians. Denmark have system pretty much identical to what you described. We normal have a result for parliamentary voting within five to six hours of the polling station closing. After three or four hours we normally have enough votes counted to call the election, on a party basis.
The issue is the individual candidates, the well known politicians are interviewed a few hours into an election night, when their seats are secured. The lesser known politicians may have to wait for a day, or two, in order to have their seat confirmed. So they get no airtime, no interviews, because the media don't care when the personal votes are finally counted and confirmed. The voting machine are for those low ranking politicians ego.
As for the US, who don't have a parliament and only two, or three, candidates in each election... I have no idea. Because they f-ed up their election system and closed to many polling stations, resulting in ballot counting taking to long?
I'm not sure how closing the stations makes any difference. The number of votes to count id directly proportional to the population, and if a democracy can't afford 5 cents per vote once every few years then maybe it shouldn't be a democracy
The voting machines isn't for you, it for the politicians. Denmark have system pretty much identical to what you described. We normal have a result for parliamentary voting within five to six hours of the polling station closing. After three or four hours we normally have enough votes counted to call the election, on a party basis.
The issue is the individual candidates, the well known politicians are interviewed a few hours into an election night, when their seats are secured. The lesser known politicians may have to wait for a day, or two, in order to have their seat confirmed. So they get no airtime, no interviews, because the media don't care when the personal votes are finally counted and confirmed. The voting machine are for those low ranking politicians ego.
As for the US, who don't have a parliament and only two, or three, candidates in each election... I have no idea. Because they f-ed up their election system and closed to many polling stations, resulting in ballot counting taking to long?