[Stooky Bill]

Always makes me laugh that this is still how it's done. Nearly every European country now has a fantastic central results website, detailing the count at the equivalent of ward-level as it comes in; we're still having people telephone into newsrooms to tell them seat level results, frequently ending up with small errors in vote tallies for broadcasters. I'm sure there are some who find it charming and quaint, not sure that's what I'd call it.

It's still a better system than they seem to have in the US where results seem to just be called by the broadcasters. I've never seen any official announcement being made of how a particular state or county has voted.

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Well the whole process of going down to your village hall and putting a cross on a piece of paper is quaint and charming too, then counting by hand.

That's true but it's one of those things that's simple but just works.

Again comparing it to the US look at all the hassles and controversy they have over voting machines. The machines themselves have to make a paper copy of each vote and still it takes weeks to count up the votes in a lot of the country. I'm not sure what the advantage is except looking like it's a more modern process