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[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

We should 100%, unironically go back solely to paper ballots. Even if they take months to tally up.

[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

These are Australian elections -- it is 100% paper ballots.

https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/

The starlink thing is just a backup link for communicating election-night preliminary count data counted by election staff at the booths. Then the ballots are transported to counting centres for the official count. Full legal results aren't known for a couple of weeks.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 6 points 7 hours ago

Still not a good enough reasons to use Starlink.

We should be investing in making sure all Voting Locations have proper telecommunication infrastructure.

Most voting locations are schools and most schools are connected to the NBN.