It's been a long campaign

posted by: Nick L | on: Friday, 2 May 2008, 22:52

Don't know about anyone else but I'm struggling to stay awake for these results. Is it me or shouldn't machines have meant the process should have made it faster? I read yesterday that if the counting was done manually then it would take two or three days.

Excuse me for being dumb but they manage to count the General Election vote in a matter of hours - surely the logical answer is simply to have more people (or in this case machines) counting.

I for one have hardly had any sleep for what seems like weeks. Certainly in this final week of the campaign I think I've managed on three or four hours a night. Just my luck that it is catching up with me as I stare at this bloody computer screen waiting for the next result!