“America has the most cockamamie system that encourages the losing side to assume they only lost the election because the other side spent 2 days faffing about with sealed boxes or rigging the count in another way.”
There is no mystery here, Mal. Our voting used to be straight forward as what you have in the UK. What ruined this was white Democrat hacks cultivating blacks lies about how they were denied voting.
This black exclusion from voting, went on 50-70 years ago in the deep South.
and was done by DEMOCRATS!