Reply #102: Canadians do not have as many things on the ballot as [View All]

Americans do.

Here is a calculation. 100 things on the ballot. 1000 ballots in the precinct. If each choice takes 10 seconds to hand-count and record, and obviously that needs to be observed at least by 2 more people from the major parties (if not more) that would be 3*10*100*1000 seconds or 833 man-hours. Let's say there are 3 teams of counter+2observers per precinct. That would mean that it would take 92 hours to count all the votes. That is 12 working days - or 2.5 weeks of hugely repetitive monotonous labor for 9 people - and that is only in one precinct. If you pay these people $10/hr (which would be slave wages for this type of work) - that's $8.5K (observers would probably have to be paid by their respective parties). Multiply that by 11,000 precincts in the state of Ohio. You can see where I am coming from when I say it is unworkable.