Actually we count lots of things, though we keep civic separate from state (we
did that last year).We delayed our election by 4 weeks because of covid.Voting
is open for a number of weeks. About 72% of voters had voted before the last
day.Voting is on paper.Voters don't have to register before voting (though that
is prefered).Count started on the last day and reporting started at about
7.30pm (polls closed at 7pm)Counting was mostly done by midnight.This term we
also have two referendums but they won't report back until the end of
October.We don't have queues because we have so many places you can
vote.https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300124486/election-2020-christchurch-east-voting-booth-locationsThere
were 3 locations within 750m of my house.Sorry to hear about your
fibre...https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/122715051/return-of-the-cyberattackers-nzx-website-goes-offline-againI
don't think a fibre cut would take down anything to serious in New Zealand....
but it does depend on what you consider important. ;)DD-- Don Gould5 Cargill
PlaceRichmondChristchurch, New ZealandMobile/Telegram: + 64 21 114
0699www.bowenvale.co.nz
-------- Original message --------From: Mark Andrews <[email protected]> Date:
17/10/20 11:29 am (GMT+12:00) To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut It’s not the
population. It’s the number of positions/things you are voting for. New
Zealand doesn’t vote for sheriffs, judges, mayors etc. AFAIK so there is much
less to count. More population should lead to more polling stations. These
need to be collated but that is a relatively quick job compared to counting the
votes. Timezone spread also makes the night longer. If you have a result
within 2 hours of the Hawaiian polls closing you are on par. -- Mark AndrewsOn
17 Oct 2020, at 07:49, Alain Hebert <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Beside being:
. a country with 1/10th of the population;
. centralized voting rules;
. <yadi yada>...
PS: And there is a lot in that <yadi yada> about the
(publicly) unreal amount of insanity being pulled by the GOP this
year.
-----
Alain Hebert [email protected]
PubNIX Inc.
50 boul. St-Charles
P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7
Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443
On 2020-10-16 02:36, Sean Donelan
wrote:
On Tue,
13 Oct 2020, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
my reaction was more like
<voice="Gomer Pyle">
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
</voice>
S.N.A.F.U.
Other SNAFUs, Georgia had technical problems with its voter
database systems during the first couple of days of early voting.
Expect all sorts of minor problems throughout the election and
afterwards. Nonetheless they are unlikely to significantly impact
the results (hopefully), but will generate lots of noise.
Its not just underfunded state I.T. systems. Even very large
social media companies can have technical Oopsies. Again,
hopefully Twitter won't fall down again during the evening of
November 3rd. The digeratti will lose thier minds.
Even if Twitter or another major social media platform does go
belly-up, most likely it will be a normal technical problem.
Wishing the FBI & CISA & OGAs watch officers a very boring
night on November 3rd.
In other news, New Zealand is having national elections this
weekend. New Zealand is usually ranked in the top 10 best
election administrations worldwide. NZ expects to have the
majority of ballots counted within 2 hours of their polls closing
on Saturday evening.
Jealous of the Kiwis and their competently run elections. :-)
