Metadata? If I am watching who goes in to the voting booth and when (all perfectly legal), and I have access to voting logs, then I can use the timing to derive most of the votes. This would be handy if I were a community organizer of some kind, especially if people knew I might have this data and were members of some fraternal organization I happened to head. Short of collecting receipts this would be an effective way to cow your members into voting the party line.
If the vote record doesn't have timing then the statistics are taking away one vote per person - effectively mandating that all people have to vote based on whatever demographics are selected, otherwise the statistician is going to declare the votes were invalid. (If you have a very successful ground campaign in one area but not another, you end up looking like a cheat - if this includes the force of law, then you may as well let SAS choose the president in advance.) I agree that counting votes is important, but the paper system is easy to game already - ask Khrushchev, or the NC BoE. Just because something else is also easy to game doesn't make it inherently worse. That said, NC is literally the poster child for where individual votes don't matter due to the statistically gerrymandered districts, so I may have a skewed perception. Best, Tim Has many friends at SAS :) On Jan 29, 2016 9:29 AM, "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > It should also be trivial to sanitize the data of PII (personally > identifiable information) and replace that with some unique identifier so > the mathematician can do her thing. > > Outright refusal to cooperate and allow data to be examined is the same > tactic used by the global warming scare-monger crowd. "Trust us!" Not on > your life... > > ------------- > Max > Charleston SC > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Tim Crone via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > Funny, I read it and wondered how she thought she should have them. > Around > > here it would be trivial to keep tabs on who voted for whom, if you had > the > > log. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
