[EM] PR favoring racial minorities

[Raph Frank]

On 8/26/08, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> 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?

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.

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.