On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raph Frank wrote: >> I agree with you on 4 (Criminal Record). If criminals are having an >> effect on the voting system, then you have to [sic] many people in prison. > > No, it simply means that your elections are /that/ close. If, > hypothetically, an election with nearly 6 million voters came down to nearly > 537 votes, it would be absurd to argue that that should require the prison > population to be brought down to 536 or less.
What I meant was something along the lines of "If you have to worry about criminals changing election results, then you have to many people in prison". Even 1% in prison isn't going to move the median by much. The idea should be to have the eligibility rules as simple as possible. Another weakness is citizenship rules. It is possible to quasi-gerrymander via the immigration rules. ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
