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I don't understand the reason for electronic voting. The UK manages to tally up paper votes overnight, even from far-flung Scottish islands. Electronic voting is literally solving a problem that nobody has.


The UK is the world's 22nd most populated and 78th largest country.


So more populated countries have more potential poll workers to choose from. Isn't this a linear relationship? What does size have to do with anything?


UK population density (people/sq km) is 289 and Switzerland's is 228, so not very different. Plus Switzerland is fully connected, there are no remote islands.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...


Australia also has paper ballots.

The area isn't that much of a problem




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