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Why does it take so long to count ballots in Mississippi?

One Mississippi
Two Mississippi
Three Mississippi
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One week later:

873.001 Mississippi
873.002 Mississippi
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This is a pretty good one.
Pretzel · 70-79, M
Mississippi public schools

Only one book in their public libraries and it's already been colored in
Elessar · 31-35, M
The concept of putting anonymous paper ballots in a sealed paper box (with only a thin hole to insert each ballot through), and at the end of the night opening the box, with members/representatives of every party present to witness the count has to be too complicated to the savage mind.

No, they either have to have either the guy reading loudly every ballot + name of the state one by one, as if it was still 1776, finishing the process after the date of the next election, or machines that'll accidentally switch your vote to republican if you don't double check before committing (and god only knows if it'll count it correctly then).
Don't know the specifics but I seem to remember reading they have not updated their vote counting procedures since the 1800s so that is probably why.

My guess is each ballot is hand counted?
ninalanyon · 70-79, T
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Not really. Each parliamentary constituency is fewer than 150 000 people in the UK, probably fewer than 75 000 actually vote. If you have a couple of dozen people counting then each one only has to count about 3 000 ballot papers. That's 250 per person per hour if it's done in 12 hours. About 15 seconds per paper. I'm just guessing at the number of people counting but it doesn't sound like a very difficult thing to do.
@ninalanyon Honestly didn't know how the numbers break down. I mean we manage it in Canada but we have half the population an somehow about 10 times the space. Not sure where you guys put nearly 70 million people. 🤣
ninalanyon · 70-79, T
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I'm not directly involved in that any more. I live in Norway which is 60% bigger than the UK with about a 15th of the population. Plenty of room. :-)

Population density:
UK: 287/km2
Norway: 14.6/km2
Canada: 4.2/km2

But if you think the UK is bad how about:
Belgium: 385/km2
Netherlands 541/km2

Source: Wikipedia,
jarrod73 · 51-55, M
Cheating games that advance the Democrats

 
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