Election Reform

That's how we do it here (UK). Once the polls close, all the ballots are dumped on a big table where a team of local volunteers will count them, watched by local representatives of each party and the local returning officer. Anyone can object to any ballot at any time but, since it's just putting a pencil cross in a box, there's rarely any difficulty working out who the vote was meant for. Error rate is almost non-existent and we usually know who's won within five or six hours (last election took longer because it was incredibly close).