Irish general election, 26th Feb 2016

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

So... we're not getting anything real at all today? Not even a national first pref count?

Was it like that in 2011 too? For some reason I remembered that counting had started on the night itself.

Counting proper begins at 9AM GMT, as it always does.

And still it can be counted faster than in Poland. Although since presidential elections there is some improvement. How long it usually takes in Ireland to count all votes?

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

I am great fan of the STV system but I noticed one major problem: it takes very long to count the votes and probably need a lot of people to work in electoral commissions for all that time. When last district will be counted?

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

I am great fan of the STV system but I noticed one major problem: it takes very long to count the votes and probably need a lot of people to work in electoral commissions for all that time. When last district will be counted?

This whole process can and should be automated via computer software.  Last I checked Ireland still has a lot of IT resources.

For me still electrification of both voting and counting (fortunately more common) process is still science fiction. Although there are examples of countries like Estonia I don't think that larger countries will be able to implement such systems.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Scotland has electronic counting of STV elections.

Thank you for the info.