[widforss]

Hand counts is the way it is done in Sweden. It means that anyone can easily (well, as easy as possible) both understand the system and inspect it locally (all counting is open to the public).

The result is delivered in a matter of hours, and since vote counting is a parallell process it scales well enough that I doubt it would take much longer in the US. The US have massively more complicated ballots though, which I think is another issue entirely that you guys must solve.

I doubt it would be very expensive either. You don't have to pay people very much to do their civic duty every couple of years and count a couple hundred ballots.

[philips]

> The US have massively more complicated ballots though, which I think is another issue entirely that you guys must solve.

Frankly this is never going to happen. The US democracy is extremely distributed and as a result each school district, water district, county, city, state and the federal government each have races and ballot items that citizens vote on.

Undoing this system is likely intractable without completely redesigning the US system of governance.

[Jensson]

You have tons of items in Sweden as well and you vote on 3 levels of government and you can even write down in text name of any candidate you want and those text votes do get counted.

So no USA is not a special flower here, you can absolutely hand count those things.