Greece Is a World-Beater in One Industry: Running Elections
- Frequent Greek votes run smoothly even on short notice
- Result projection usually known in less than two hours
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Say what you will about the Greeks and their country’s reputation for inefficiency, but they know how to run an election.
As voters head to the polls this weekend for the sixth time since 2009, the well-rehearsed process of combining low-tech paper ballots with modern mobile technology will probably run like clockwork yet again. The July referendum on austerity measures, for example, was organized in about two weeks and came off without a hitch.