In case anyone was remarking on the slow pace of counting in the English local elections the other day, after fifteen hours of verification, tallying, sorting, counting and painfully meticulous rechecking of "doubtful" votes (including any votes which have a preference missing in the sequence or the same preference repeated twice), Longford County Council has managed two full counts in one electoral area with no elections and two eliminations and the count adjourned just after midnight.
We return at 11am tomorrow.
Pray for us. Or shoot us. Either will do the trick.
You're doing even worse than Tower Hamlets 
I understand that one (one) of the major problems with the Tower Hamlets count is that the mayoral counting staff weren't properly briefed on what constitutes a spoilt paper under SV. The result: 2,000 of the blasted things for the Returning Officer to go through.
