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<div dir="auto">Actually we count lots of things, though we keep civic separate from state (we did that last year).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We delayed our election by 4 weeks because of covid.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Voting is open for a number of weeks. About 72% of voters had voted before the last day.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Voting is on paper.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Voters don't have to register before voting (though that is prefered).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Count started on the last day and reporting started at about 7.30pm (polls closed at 7pm)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Counting was mostly done by midnight.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This term we also have two referendums but they won't report back until the end of October.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We don't have queues because we have so many places you can vote.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300124486/election-2020-christchurch-east-voting-booth-locations</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There were 3 locations within 750m of my house.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sorry to hear about your fibre...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/122715051/return-of-the-cyberattackers-nzx-website-goes-offline-again</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't think a fibre cut would take down anything to serious in New Zealand.... but it does depend on what you consider important. ;)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">D</div><div dir="auto">D</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">-- <br dir="auto">Don Gould<br dir="auto">5 Cargill Place<br dir="auto">Richmond<br dir="auto">Christchurch, New Zealand<br dir="auto">Mobile/Telegram: + 64 21 114 0699<br dir="auto">www.bowenvale.co.nz</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> </div><div>Date: 17/10/20 11:29 am (GMT+12:00) </div><div>To: ahebert@pubnix.net </div><div>Cc: nanog@nanog.org </div><div>Subject: Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut </div><div><br></div></div>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">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Beside being:<br>
<br>
. a country with 1/10th of the population;<br>
<br>
. centralized voting rules;<br>
<br>
. <yadi yada>...<br>
<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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Alain Hebert <a href="mailto:ahebert@pubnix.net" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">ahebert@pubnix.net</a>
PubNIX Inc.
50 boul. St-Charles
P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7
Tel: 514-990-5911 <a href="http://www.pubnix.net" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.pubnix.net</a> Fax: 514-990-9443
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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">On Tue,
13 Oct 2020, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">my reaction was more like
<br>
<voice="Gomer Pyle">
<br>
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
<br>
</voice>
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
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>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
Jealous of the Kiwis and their competently run elections. :-)
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