[cassianoleal]

Some of the things that used to happen during counting:

- Blank ballot papers being filled out by the person counting;

- Votes for legislators were done by writing the candidate's name:

\- A lot of those were illegible so counters would "take a guess" (really just count to their candidates)

\- Sometimes the same name could be attributed to different candidates, including from different political sides. Same result as above.

- Criteria for what to do when in doubt would sometimes change mid-counting. Counting would take many days even when everything was going fine, so people now would have to make a decision between restarting the counting (and run the risk of facing the same situation a few days down), or adapt for the remaining votes and essentially make it a gamble which side of the criteria your vote fell.

- People were tired (again, it would take days in the heat of the summer in a closed room with a bunch of strangers) so they would make mistake.

- People just couldn't count sometimes.

I could go on...