In a rare step, 3 South Dakota counties are set to vote on counting ballots by hand

[LiberalLovinLug]

32. Just a lot of excuses.

Many other western democracies in Europe have even more population density. Maybe its the GOP's fault for slowing it down, but it seems your system is just not run efficiently enough. Perhaps also the burden of each State being responsible for their own. Here there is more directive from the federal government on standards and methods being the same across the land

We in Canada get the main results by the end of the day, before midnight. Unless its very close and there are enough still to count to sway the results, the country knows who will win by then. I worked one year as a poll worker, and we shut the doors after they closed at I think 8 pm. Had reps of parties watching on as we opened each vote and read it aloud. It took about two hours.

More votes to count down there yes, but you also have 10x the population to garner workers from. So if you had a proper system, you should be able to figure it out.

The only thing I will say, that you never mentioned, was that the US tends to have other issues tacked on to each election. Its not just mark one X next to one name and your done. So the tabulation of votes for different issues would take more time.

Meh, I still think you'all could do it. And it would shut up Mike Pillow's bad machines theory.