How are votes counted?

Votes are counted like when you and your friends count candies after a party.

Imagine you and your friends each pick a favorite color for a game, red, blue, or green. At the end of the game, everyone shows their chosen color, and you all work together to see who had the most votes.

Counters are like the people who help you count the candies. They look at all the colors and keep track of how many there are for each one. Sometimes they use a tally sheet, which is like a piece of paper where they make marks, one for each vote, so it's easy to see who won.

If there are too many votes to count all at once, counters might group them into batches, like sorting candies into small piles and counting each pile separately. Then they add up the totals from each batch to get the final count.

Sometimes, people use a machine to help count faster, just like how you can use a scale to weigh your candies quickly instead of counting them one by one.

That’s how votes are counted, fair, simple, and clear!