Reply #15: AU: one week to a month, depending on the election

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

I asked some elections methods experts for some history on the counting of
ballots for Australia - the house uses a form of "IRV":

The 2007 elections for House (Australian house uses IRV)
were held 24 November.
By 30 Nov or before they had announced preliminary results/guesses.
As of 6 Dec, they had counted a lot of races accurately enough but still
considered
9 races (of the 150 total) unresolved.
As of 11 Dec, 7 races were unresolved.
As of 28 Dec (or before?), they considered all 150 counts to be final.

So the answer is it takes about a month to handle the tough races,
but the easy races take only about a week.

Perhaps somebody can give more exact timeline.
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