Ill answer both of you at the same time.
I don't think it's fair to call people names for taking voting seriously, I mean some of the choices being made based on who is in charge can severely change people's lives. Politicians are just as much citizens of the country as you are, no more and no less. (I know the rules doesn't really seem like that
, but at least on paper it should be.) So making sure that everyone have trust in how voting takes place is very important, because obviously if people get convinced that it is corrupt or being manipulated, then they will lose trust in not only that, but also the government in general. I assume it is the same in the US as it is in Denmark, that it is your right to be able to state your opinion about who you believe should run your country. So pointing fingers at those that feel cheated have to be taken very seriously in my opinion, even if they are wrong. It does tell something about the system that so many feel that fraud is involved. Whether that is purely because people are angry or the system is not transparent enough doesn't really matter I think. People should be able to go away from an election feeling that their vote counted, whether they lost or won.
So I don't think Denmark have a paranoid level of voter security, I have actually been a voter elective myself, a single time. And the process of checking people is very fast. Normally, or at least the place I did it, we were two people, one checking IDs and scanning, and the other one handing out the voting slip. And honestly, it takes about 5-10 seconds per person, once you get into the routine.
After everyone have voted, the votes will be sorted and put into piles based on parties. And then all of them are counted by two seperate people, to see if the number of votes match the number which are suppose to vote at that given place. This is the initial count and if things doesn't match up within a given margin, then everything will be recounted at that election place. Once that is done, then all the votes will be recounted another place as well, where they go through them in more details and fix potential errors that the initial counting might have missed. But normally only very few mistakes are made, so the initial counting is what is shown in the TV, just as with the US election.