[Magdalen] Whither Scotland?

[Scott Knitter]

The official announcement is expected around breakfast-time or a
little later from the central election site near Edinburgh. I've
always admired U.K. elections for having official announcements. I
suppose we've got those, too, but we've all heard the outcomes ad
nauseam via news outlets' projections even before voting ends. In the
U.K, I gather every constituency has its announcement done publicly,
giving the final totals. Seems efficient and civilized. And if the
scheme for collecting vote-counts is efficient, the results can bubble
up to whatever level is needed rather swiftly, with paper to back up
the results in case of dispute or very close totals.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> I see the polls close in Scotland at 10 PM which is, I think this  time
> of the year, 4 PM EDT North America.
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> An incredible 97% of eligible voters have registered to vote, and
> this now includes 16 and 17 year olds.
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> There has been some news coverage of Scots voting, and in every
> case there were paper ballots being dropped into a box.
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> While this style is still common in some parts of the USA, I've
> always voted via "voting machine".
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> It's going to be a long night for the Scots, particularly if all  votes
> are tabulated by hand.
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>
> David Strang.



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA