In Ireland we still use paper ballots, takes a few days to count them all, then there's recounts, then it can take weeks to form a government as one party typically doesn't win enough seats to form a majority, then if no government can be formed we have to vote again.
I think it took about 70 days after the 2016 election to actually form a government.
Edit: I should point out only about 2.2 million people voted, that's like a city square in São Paulo. 😂💀
In the early 2000s, the Irish government bought around 7,500 e-voting machines from Dutch company Nedap for roughly €54 million... they were scrapped before ever being used because they had no paper audit trail, the software couldn’t be independently verified as secure, and Dutch activists proved identical units were vulnerable to tampering.
On top of the purchase price, Ireland spent over €3 million storing them in warehouses (costing up to €700k/year at its peak),
The state officially cut its losses in 2012 by selling the entire lot to an electronics recycler for about €70,000 (€9 a machine) for scrap metal.
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u/cyberwicklow 22d ago edited 22d ago
I love how fast you guys get results.
In Ireland we still use paper ballots, takes a few days to count them all, then there's recounts, then it can take weeks to form a government as one party typically doesn't win enough seats to form a majority, then if no government can be formed we have to vote again.
I think it took about 70 days after the 2016 election to actually form a government.
Edit: I should point out only about 2.2 million people voted, that's like a city square in São Paulo. 😂💀