Difference in vote-counting
May. 5th, 2016 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcIn the US non-electronic voting tends to involve marking several choices, perhaps even more, on the one paper ballot. Depending on one's state or town, there could be everybody from the coroner and the auditor to the judges and the cemetery commissioners to elect. Counting is typically somehow mechanically assisted.
In the UK counting remains generally done by hand, quickly and well. Part of the secret of the speed is that different choices are made on different ballots: then they can be sorted into piles according to each chosen option and rapidly rechecked. So, today for the Scottish Parliament when I voted to elect representatives both for my constituency, Perthshire North, and my region, Mid-Scotland & Fife, I marked two separate ballots, differently colored, that went into separate boxes.
In the UK counting remains generally done by hand, quickly and well. Part of the secret of the speed is that different choices are made on different ballots: then they can be sorted into piles according to each chosen option and rapidly rechecked. So, today for the Scottish Parliament when I voted to elect representatives both for my constituency, Perthshire North, and my region, Mid-Scotland & Fife, I marked two separate ballots, differently colored, that went into separate boxes.
