On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:38 , Raph Frank wrote:
On 8/26/08, Juho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 26, 2008, at 1:20 , Raph Frank wrote:
Each candidate can register in any number of polling stations
covering
at most N seat's worth of population. (N=5 might be reasonable).
You might want to keep the sizes of the registered areas of each
candidate
about equal (or to balance the situation in some other way).
Erm, that's what the above rule does?
Sorry, I misread the intention in a hurry.
If the country had a population of 5 million and 100 seats, then the
'quota' would be 50,000 residents. This would mean that a candidate
could register in as many polling stations as he likes as long as the
total population covered by them was less than 250k. (Assuming N=5).
It might be worth adding a rule that each of the polling stations
would cover an equal number of people. Is that what you meant? Also,
it might be worth limiting the max size of the population for each
polling station.
It would be possible to have more than 1 'virtual' polling station at
a physical location. Each polling station would have a catchment
area, ballots printed for it and a ballot box and probably its own
room at the physical location.
Here we are quite close to confusing the voters. If each small
district has different candidates and each voter can vote at any
station, then maybe we could try the (so much feared) computerized
voting, but only so that each voter would see a screen that would
display all the candidates that are available to him/her. The ballot
could be generic (same to all voters). This would work also in
geographic coordinate based scenarios.
Juho
This has the added advantage that voters would be treated reasonably
equally as each station would have to have the same level of
resources, so there isn't queues at one one location and none at
another.
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