The starlink thing is just a backup link for communicating election-night preliminary count data counted by election staff at the booths. Then the ballots are transported to counting centres for the official count. Full legal results aren’t known for a couple of weeks.
We should 100%, unironically go back solely to paper ballots. Even if they take months to tally up.
These are Australian elections – it is 100% paper ballots.
https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/counting/
The starlink thing is just a backup link for communicating election-night preliminary count data counted by election staff at the booths. Then the ballots are transported to counting centres for the official count. Full legal results aren’t known for a couple of weeks.