Re: [EM] Last call for edits to consensus statement

2011-09-12 Thread Andy Jennings
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jameson Quinn wrote: > For instance, for range voting, the equipment could count how many people > gave each rating to candidate A, from a simple array of choices such as 0, > 1, 50, 98, 99, or 100. Most choices are bunched near the ends of the scale, > as this hel

Re: [EM] Last call for edits to consensus statement (Jameson Quinn)

2011-09-11 Thread Stéphane Rouillon
The need for a computerized counting system depends not only on the maximum number of allowed ranks but on the number of candidates too. That does not imply the need of a centralized to do all the job. Local precincts can do some part of the job before the central gathers all the information

Re: [EM] Last call for edits to consensus statement (Jameson Quinn)

2011-09-11 Thread Kathy Dopp
> From: Jameson Quinn > > New proposed section: > > Vote-counting details > Most of our supported methods will require no updates to voting equipment, > and all can be counted at the precinct level. False claim. All of them require at least software updates and fully ranking more than 3 candidate

Re: [EM] Last call for edits to consensus statement (Jameson Quinn)

2011-09-11 Thread Kathy Dopp
ast call for edits to consensus statement (Jameson Quinn) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:33:14 -0600 > From: Jameson Quinn > To: EM , >        electionsciencefoundation > Subject: [EM] Last call for edits to consensus statement >