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Our elections can't cope with real digital despite us being tech savvy

Having sorted out political party questions to everyone’s benefit when it initially seemed like a one-sided advantage, one of the past week’s highlights has been the move to amend our actual electoral laws. It would seem that live media transmission of results is a bad idea. Or that the paper trail should be physical, and manual. It is amazing how good we are at legislating what should be normal behaviour. 

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