Here's the Blast!

[skyring]

Sneezed this afternoon and the dog literally cringed. It was an award-winning sneeze, and I'm coming down with an award-winning cold. I think I'll spend the next day or so in bed.

Except I can't - too much to do.

LJ was down this morning, so it took me a while to catch up this evening. Seems like most of my LJ friends are in a different political quadrant to me. My law enforced by goons was to make everybody vote. I really hate seeing people marginalised because there's no votes in their demographic for the politicians. It's a vicious circle.

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[skyring.livejournal.com]

Actually, we count the votes on the night. I've been a scrutineer at a few elections and I see the process in action. Each polling place counts its own ballots and the totals are phoned in to a central office. Generally you can get a pretty good feel for the flow of preferences without having to count them.

For instance, if the USA had preferential voting, most primary ballots for a Green candidate would probably have the Democrat as a second preference.

The ballots are all sent into a central office for that electorate and a second, more thorough count is conducted over the next few days for the record.