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I voted on Saturday (Australian election). No id required, 100% paper votes, all counted by hand (as far as I'm aware) and we normally have a result within a few hours of polls in the West closing.

Seems to work very well, but I guess one advantage we have is that none of the parties here are worth cheating for.

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Might also help that Australia's population is about 22M. The USA are at 308M and India is 1180M - hand-counting ballots might just be a bigger problem with those kinds of numbers involved.

Can't see why it would be. That kind of thing parallelizes really well.

Granted, oversight would likely thin a bit.

Germany has 80 m, and hand-counting works well. It does seem to be easy to parallelize.

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