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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
I laughed out loud at this. What kind of people are they finding to count votes who can count at the whopping pace of 25 votes per hour? lol. Why is it taking over 2 minutes to tabulate ONE VOTE? Math not their strong suit in Red Deer, obviously.
90,000 votes spread across a city is nothing really to count. I used to work in polling stations and we'd count 1200 an hour per person.
75 man hours to count 90k votes - you get some ancient old people in there doing it and maybe it's 100 man hours. Probably honestly takes more than that to calibrate/set up/program the machines.
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Maybe the numbers are out to lunch, having never worked in a polling station I'm not sure. But it's important to note that Red Deer does not have a ward system so each ballot will have 30 candidates, of which up to 8 are selected on each ballot. Plus the Mayor which is tabulated separately. Plus 16 Public School Trustee nominees of which 7 are elected. Plus the 6 Catholic School Trustees that were elected. Lastly, they are anticipating 1 provincial referendum question.
It doesn't seem as simple as counting a single vote in a Federal Election for example.
https://elections.reddeer.ca/media/r...on-Results.pdf