<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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. <div><br></div><div>Timezone spread also makes the night longer. If you have a result within 2 hours of the Hawaiian polls closing you are on par. <br><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr">-- <div>Mark Andrews</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 17 Oct 2020, at 07:49, Alain Hebert <ahebert@pubnix.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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Hi,<br>
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Beside being:<br>
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. a country with 1/10th of the population;<br>
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. centralized voting rules;<br>
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. <yadi yada>...<br>
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PS: And there is a lot in that <yadi yada> about the
(publicly) unreal amount of insanity being pulled by the GOP this
year.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2020-10-16 02:36, Sean Donelan
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:27ors8p0-6o2r-8rr1-s331-846rp82pr7@qbaryna.pbz">On Tue,
13 Oct 2020, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">my reaction was more like
<br>
<voice="Gomer Pyle">
<br>
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
<br>
</voice>
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</blockquote>
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S.N.A.F.U.
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
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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.
<br>
<br>
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.
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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.
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Jealous of the Kiwis and their competently run elections. :-)
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