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You can start counting during the election. So, counting the last hundred or so ballets in ~1hour gives plenty of time for accuracy.

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> You can start counting during the election.

That seems very odd. Can you actually do that? Around here the polling location must first ensure that the number of votes cast matches the number of votes recorded during voting, only after that can they open the urns and start tallying.

The UK throws body's at the problem. But, in theory you can have say 2 hour windows keeping track of the voters and start counting that.

Not in the UK you can't. All boxes are sealed until "the count" which only starts after the election has ended.

Sure, not in the UK, but the US for example starts early. There is also little reason to wait to count absentee ballots.

PS: Saying you need to change the law when that must happen with any significant change anyway is kind of a minor hurdle.

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