Hand-counting ballots doesn't scale worth a damn. Imagine if you had to find 20-50 times the number of people to count your ballots. It's a non-trivial operation.
Au contraire, mon capitan. Counting ballots is always something that has to be done locally. You need x people to count y votes, so the US may need a few people more than.au, but they do not need more people counting per vote.
Here in.de we have approx. 80 million. Let's say 80% of that are of voting age so they have the right to vote (don't have to register, can only be stripped of that right in extreme cases if at all AFAIK). Makes 64 millions. Let's say we have a real low number of people voting, just 50%. Makes 32 millions of votes. And? Votes are usually counted by midnight. And we do count pen marked paper votes by hand. There has to be consens about dubious votes before counting is done. Recounts? No problem. The papers are still there. Rarely done however.
Only on local votes counting usually takes a bit longer, because there you can spread maybe 60 votes over a few times that number of candidates and may or may not give more than one to one candidate and you don't even have to give all votes but may use a 'rest of votes to that party'-Option.
Kinda both - if he's just out for killing his server, he's a masochist. If he wants to frustrate thousands of/.-readers trying to access the page, it's the former.
If Space Quest taught you to cheat - being a Sierra game it most definitely taught people to Save Early, Save Often. Not for getting more out of a game of chance, but to be saved from having to play again much of the previous half hour because you had just died Yet Another Sierra Death.
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Hand-counting ballots doesn't scale worth a damn. Imagine if you had to find 20-50 times the number of people to count your ballots. It's a non-trivial operation.
.au, but they do not need more people counting per vote.
.de we have approx. 80 million. Let's say 80% of that are of voting age so they have the right to vote (don't have to register, can only be stripped of that right in extreme cases if at all AFAIK). Makes 64 millions. Let's say we have a real low number of people voting, just 50%. Makes 32 millions of votes. And? Votes are usually counted by midnight. And we do count pen marked paper votes by hand. There has to be consens about dubious votes before counting is done. Recounts? No problem. The papers are still there. Rarely done however.
Au contraire, mon capitan. Counting ballots is always something that has to be done locally. You need x people to count y votes, so the US may need a few people more than
Here in
Only on local votes counting usually takes a bit longer, because there you can spread maybe 60 votes over a few times that number of candidates and may or may not give more than one to one candidate and you don't even have to give all votes but may use a 'rest of votes to that party'-Option.
Hokum. Use two counterspinning main rotors. Probably easier than a main rotor and a tail rotor.
Kinda both - if he's just out for killing his server, he's a masochist. If he wants to frustrate thousands of /.-readers trying to access the page, it's the former.
If Space Quest taught you to cheat - being a Sierra game it most definitely taught people to Save Early, Save Often. Not for getting more out of a game of chance, but to be saved from having to play again much of the previous half hour because you had just died Yet Another Sierra Death.
Easily solved... install X-shaped windows. Voila - an X Window system.