Chris from Brum
Lib Dem
What I need is a strong drink and a peer group.
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Post by Chris from Brum on Aug 8, 2019 15:41:27 GMT
Well you could have individual counts and feed it in the one overall count. European Parliament elections do this for instance. Then the overall count would just need a meeting room type space. Birmingham has swung between having all the counts in one hall - the NIA one year, a big hall in the ICC last year, for instance - and having dispersed counts in school halls. The latter is obviously fine for district elections, I do appreciate that for the London Mayor/GLA elections it wouldn't work. |
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piperdave
SNP
Dalkeith; Midlothian/North & Musselburgh
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Post by piperdave on Aug 8, 2019 23:36:19 GMT
Well you could have individual counts and feed it in the one overall count. European Parliament elections do this for instance. Then the overall count would just need a meeting room type space. I've explained why that would not work. There are four ballots to count; everyone has to remain there until the count has been done, and there are often count glitches which need to be resolved. Having each council do its own count would mean the whole thing would move at the speed of the slowest, and offer ten times as many opportunities for hold-ups. This makes zero sense. In a manual count, you could have everyone count their mayoral first preference. Once that is complete, move on to the constituency count, then after that the London-wide count. Then either by that time everyone has completed the first mayoral count and you can begin the second preference if required, or the GLRO takes a decision that all counts will be suspended until following morning to complete the mayoralty. It's entirely doable and won't be held up because the wrong type of dust got in the counting machine. |
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