[NeutronBoy]

What would you question about it?

There are normally multiple observers from all parties, plus election officials, that scrutinize the counting process in real-time. Disputes are raised and resolved on the spot where possible, and it not are normally escalated. This is why elections can have provisional results on the same day/night, and the official results are a few days later.

[sambe]

I thought it was obvious the speed is essentially irrelevant to the democratic process in the context of minutes to count.

The extent of the competition over seconds and minutes here is bound to lead to some mistkaes, and I would question whether the checks are sufficient (the checks themselves may also be susceptible to mistkaes). The word "childish" comes to mind. We are talking about the future of the country and it's treated like a TV reality/quiz show.