analysis Counting staff are not under pressure to get results early as is the case with a night-time count WHAT they never tell you when you study journalism is just how much of your working life will be spent standing or sitting around just waiting. Today I am waiting in the Highland Hall at the Royal Highland Centre at Ingliston as the boring bit of democracy, the actual counting of votes, takes place. It is the 20th election count I have attended either as a reporter or press officer, dating all the way back to the first devolution referendum in 1979.