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Speaker 1: People keep asking what on earth is taking so damn long with the vote counting? What are they doing? There are fewer special votes to count this time around because they were expecting 700,000. They've only got just over or just under even 400,000 votes to count. The problem is they need to send all of the votes from people who voted outside of their electorate back to their electorate for counting. So that takes a little bit of time. Some of those votes will have come from overseas. They also recount all the votes that they already counted on election day because they are preliminary, so you want them to be final. It's basically the equivalent of a builder's measuring twice and cutting once. But it does mean that for three weeks, the country's governing arrangements are completely up in the air. We don't know if we're Arthur or Martha this morning. It's like watching a game of cricket and trying to work out who's winning. Impossible. Still, it is better we're certain of the final result than question it. You'd rather three weeks and a number you can trust than two weeks and a number you can't.