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snot

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8. The thing is,

Reply to questionseverything (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 09:02 PM

Nov 20

it's a lot harder to cheat on a massive scale with physical ballots -- tends to require more physical effort, more conspirators, etc.

Even if it took a month to count paper ballots by hand, I'd consider it worth the wait.

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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