All in all, it's probably one of the best and most efficient counting process in the world, because the results are always hotly contested so we have to make sure they are right. Irregularities can happen outside the polling station (and they do, especially in mafia-dominated southern areas) but they won't happen inside.
This time there's a change though, a few regions are experimenting with electronic voting. It would be interesting to see if these will bring the same sort of problems Diebold brought in the US (i.e. noticeable discrepancies between usually reliable exit-poll results and official results, public debunking of flawed security in the voting system, and widespread suspicion of substantial vote fraud).
"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819
There has been a good deal of controversy over this affair in the past weeks. There were possibilities of fraud. A police investigation a few days ago found two telephone accesses to the root directory within the Ministry and apparently remedied it.
In the best of cases the whole affair is just a rip-off for crony contracts.
At this point it doesn't seem likely he'll be Council President.
B also promised it but his promises are written on water.
