Canada only has paper ballots and counts them all by hand!?

That crazy wrote:

Population in Canada 40.1 million

Population in the USA 343.6 million

TrumpWon wrote:

Go look how rapidly Florida counts.

Hanging Chad wrote:

TrumpWon wrote:

Go look how rapidly Florida counts.

Sometimes.

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TrumpWon wrote:

That crazy wrote:

Population in Canada 40.1 million

Population in the USA 343.6 million

Go look how rapidly Florida counts.

wejo wrote:

I knew Canada only had paper ballots for elections which doesn't seem that crazy. One ballot, one vote is a secure system.

But then I just read they count them all by hand. That seems nuts to me. No machines to speed up the process and you still will count the most of them the day of the election well before the US?

Are the counters volunteers? Likely saves a ton of dollars as well if they are. Just shows how a more complicated system the US (where we have tons of different systems for counting ballots) can be more expensive and less effective than a simpler one.

I don't see why you wouldn't use some scantron system to count the ballots but if it's not needed why do it?

That crazy wrote:

Population in Canada 40.1 million

Population in the USA 343.6 million

wejo wrote:

I knew Canada only had paper ballots for elections which doesn't seem that crazy. One ballot, one vote is a secure system.

But then I just read they count them all by hand. That seems nuts to me. No machines to speed up the process and you still will count the most of them the day of the election well before the US?

Are the counters volunteers? Likely saves a ton of dollars as well if they are. Just shows how a more complicated system the US (where we have tons of different systems for counting ballots) can be more expensive and less effective than a simpler one.

I don't see why you wouldn't use some scantron system to count the ballots but if it's not needed why do it?

CanadianLogic wrote:

Our ballots are way more simple than yours. We don't have any down ballot votes or other things to vote on. Just choose your desired Member of Parliament for your riding. We also don't have as many tight races so projections are easier. Counting every single ballot probably still takes a decent amount of time but we can call races pretty early.

wejo wrote:

CanadianLogic wrote:

Our ballots are way more simple than yours. We don't have any down ballot votes or other things to vote on. Just choose your desired Member of Parliament for your riding. We also don't have as many tight races so projections are easier. Counting every single ballot probably still takes a decent amount of time but we can call races pretty early.

So if there is a race for mayor and also city council then you use machines to count those? Parliament is a totally separate election?

And to poster #2 why is this thread garbage? The fact a very developed country used a very simple system to vote is I think totally appropriate to discuss.

Trump 2028 ! wrote:

Hanging Chad wrote:

Sometimes.

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After that election they changed it lol. And now it’s one of the fastest and best

coach wrote:

Trump 2028 ! wrote:

After that election they changed it lol. And now it’s one of the fastest and best

Yes, I hear Trump already won the 2028 election.

wejo wrote:

CanadianLogic wrote:

Our ballots are way more simple than yours. We don't have any down ballot votes or other things to vote on. Just choose your desired Member of Parliament for your riding. We also don't have as many tight races so projections are easier. Counting every single ballot probably still takes a decent amount of time but we can call races pretty early.

So if there is a race for mayor and also city council then you use machines to count those? Parliament is a totally separate election?

And to poster #2 why is this thread garbage? The fact a very developed country used a very simple system to vote is I think totally appropriate to discuss.

wejo wrote:

I knew Canada only had paper ballots for elections which doesn't seem that crazy. One ballot, one vote is a secure system.

But then I just read they count them all by hand. That seems nuts to me. No machines to speed up the process and you still will count the most of them the day of the election well before the US?

Are the counters volunteers? Likely saves a ton of dollars as well if they are. Just shows how a more complicated system the US (where we have tons of different systems for counting ballots) can be more expensive and less effective than a simpler one.

I don't see why you wouldn't use some scantron system to count the ballots but if it's not needed why do it?

wejo wrote:

I knew Canada only had paper ballots for elections which doesn't seem that crazy. One ballot, one vote is a secure system.

But then I just read they count them all by hand. That seems nuts to me. No machines to speed up the process and you still will count the most of them the day of the election well before the US?

Are the counters volunteers? Likely saves a ton of dollars as well if they are. Just shows how a more complicated system the US (where we have tons of different systems for counting ballots) can be more expensive and less effective than a simpler one.

I don't see why you wouldn't use some scantron system to count the ballots but if it's not needed why do it?