12-07-2016 09:04 via news.yahoo.com

In rare consensus, Australian MPs call for e-voting as poll count drags on

By Tom Westbrook and Yuzuha Oka SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australians have elected a divided parliament stacked with fractious independents and minor parties but the nation's weary political leaders are united on at least one front: the need for electronic voting. Counting in Australia's July 2 election dragged into its 10th day on Tuesday, drawing unfavorable comparisons with Japan, Iceland and Spain, where recent elections were all decided in less than a day. Britons took just seven hours to calculat
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