Slow at sums

IT takes seconds to count votes in Eurovision/talent competitions.

Slow at sums
Fri, 20 Jun, 2008 - 01:00
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It takes five hours, with innumerable counters, to tally a mere 1.4 million yes/no votes.

What does that tell us?

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