AE 1141 - The Goss: Answering your Questions about the 2022 Federal Election
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How Long Does It Take to Vote?
The counting officially starts as soon as the polls close, which is six p m. Typically we don't really get any reasonable numbers through for about two hours because you only ever get when a particular poling booth. A in addition to that, though, there are typically scrutiniers from each of the major parties who will sit in those polling booths. They know the result before the electral commission even gets it. And they will then be ringing up their head office, and the head office will then ring the meteor and so on. You would know by about midnight, you'd have a pretty good idea of where it's going to go and who's going to win.
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