How is it in this day and age that we have to wait 2 weeks for absentee ballots? Time their "due date" 2 weeks before the election so that they are all in hand by the time they might be (usually aren't) needed. Better yet, get them online so results are available immediately. 
If most of the absentee ballots are military personnel, then surely they can count them up wherever they're deployed and send an email to someone with a few numbers.
While up on this here soap box - it took returning officers over an hour to submit results from Andrew Weaver's Oak Bay riding Tuesday night. The cause (according to the CBC folks I was watching)? Down phone lines! Really!? No one has a cell phone? Do phone lines even go down anymore (excepting storms)?

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