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Fiendish Thingy

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1. Did you know most of Europe's ballots have but a single race?

Reply to questionseverything (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:59 PM

Nov 20

Voters vote for their member of Parliament, or whatever the legislative body is called, and that’s it.

Same here in Canada for both federal and provincial races- just one race, one single vote, per ballot.

The exception is for municipal elections, those have more than one race (multiple city council positions, mayor, etc)

Provincial (BC) and municipal ballots are tabulated by machine.

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Did you know most of Europe hand counts their paper ballots? [View all] questionseverything Nov 20 OP

Did you know most of Europe's ballots have but a single race? Fiendish Thingy Nov 20 #1

We have more than 4 times as many people as any country that actually votes in europe JT45242 Nov 20 #2

When vote counts are done heirarchically, the process time should be O(log n), not O(n). eppur_se_muova Nov 20 #7

because other than France those countries don't elect dsc Nov 20 #3

And their ballots are quite different. Igel Nov 20 #4

I remember myself and two other union Emile Nov 20 #5

Kick for new points questionseverything Nov 20 #6

The thing is, snot Nov 20 #8

Counting one race precinct by precinct should take a few hours not days questionseverything Nov 20 #9

In my county there are multiple precincts at each polling place. LiberalFighter Nov 20 #10

We are only talking about hand counting the presidential race for this discussion questionseverything Nov 20 #11