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This reminds me of a joke I heard on the radio today. To paraphrase: “Thursday was Thanksgiving in the US, but it won’t be over until Christmas, because they’ll have to recount their blessings again and again and again…”
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Hmm. You know, our ballots are marked with an X and counted by hand. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a recount due to technical difficulties.
(Of course, lots of ballots were alleged to have been fraudulently ignored during the last referendum, and someone stole a car with a bunch of ballots in it from an advanced poll this time around, but those are not exactly mechanical-failure type problem.)
Gee, mark with an X, count by hand… whatta concept.
You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But when I went to a Queer McGill party the other week, I ended up sitting in the corner chatting up the dieffenbachia… sigh maybe it’s just me.