We have used RCV in Australia for about a century counting paper ballots by hand and there has been one election within my lifetime where the result wasn’t known on election night. There are always a few seats that go right down to the wire and take longer to get the final result, but I see that as a feature, not a bug. We do also use computers in the count, but the initial count and preference distribution is done by hand.

We are too impatient already.

I don’t understand why people are so obsessed with getting a final, definitive result on election night. You have a ridiculous 2 month gap between the election and the new congress and president being seated, and the outgoing congress and president still get to legislate and exercise executive power in that time. It’s ludicrous to me that the losing party gets two months to sabotage the incoming government.

Well we are on Lemmy, so yes

I can see the republicans going for the 25th if they dress it up in very flowery language about how “the president has done a fantastic job but he’s become very unwell and for his own health he needs to step down and it’s a shame that he isn’t able to make that decision for himself any more” or some crap like that, then they might get enough defectors on board for it to pass. They get to keep praising him, claim it’s for his own good and that they’re doing it because they care about him, rather than the betrayal of voting to impeach and convict.