The US elections have complexities many other countries don’t have. For instance, we vote for all the offices, rather than voting for an MP and having that determine the Prime Minister, so there are a lot more things to count. My California ballot had about 7 pages, including all the school board elections and dozen state and several local ballot referenda.
And then there’s the “No Brown M&M’s” rule, which makes everything else take longer to count.
