[EM] Methods based on sequential voting

[James Gilmour]

> Simmons, Forest Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:33 AM
> 
> In some elections not all of the ballots are cast at the same 
> time, and furthermore, the partial results (from exit polls, 
> say) may be available to voters later in the sequence.

The simple, and logical, solution where an election spans several time zones is not to start any counting until the last
polling station has closed and to ban the publication of all exit polls until that time.
James Gilmour