However, he argued that this must not be taken out of context as numerous country-specific factors play a role in implementing e-voting.
Marco says that developed countries have functioning municipalities that make voting and counting much more manageable.
Exactly, last year's vote for me here in Austria, I walked to my local spot about 2 minutes from my place, up the stairs, and was in the voting room. Got the ballot sheet within like 10 seconds, and voted and was heading out within 15 seconds after that. Entire process was <5 min from leaving home and casting a vote and getting back.
Previous place I lived at it was <3 minutes as well. For most here, it's <10 minutes.
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I would like an online vote, but there's also mail-in ballot, just head to the district municipality and pick up the letter to vote, takes maybe 2 minutes once you're there (takes ~10 minutes to get there) and drop it off in any post box that's at most a minute or two away from where you live.
Results are usually within a day for preliminary from local count as they're lots of small voting stations so is quick, and then they do a full recount that takes another 3 days for the "official" one, but don't think it's ever deviated, usually <10 votes difference.
South Africa on the other hand, if you go vote, it takes like two hours of standing in a queue to drop off the ballot, or at least my last one was, e-voting would make that substantially easier.
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