Here we still have to vote by putting paper ballots in a box. Every piece of paper is manually counted and reported. To ensure that the entire process isn't adulterated, every contending party needs to have a person of his own trust on every table where people votes, so to oversight everything. Established parties use the money they squeeze out from public money to pay for every "volunteer". We didn't had nor that nor any source of money to pay anyone, so the entire structure had to be completely composed of volunteers. 10,000 volunteers in my state alone. I had a good and heavy quote of responsibility on the coordination of the effort of getting and coordinating that "army", in most territories designating and helping local coordinators, and being personally responsible of my own. I made in google drive the entire database people used to list and coordinate the volunteers, helped to define the structure of coordinators, designated and instructed many, gave countless of training sessions, etc etc...but, by far and large, what consumed the most of my time was bringing emotional balance to people, volunteers and coordinators alike. My nerves being essentially fried out from past terrible experiences in the field plus the base assumption that losing was by all means a possibility, allowed me to talk to people that was crying to me on the phone with a non forced calmed tone that never failed to appease. Every one called me to thank me when we won, something I keep warmly in my heart.