[EM] PR favoring racial minorities

[Juho]

On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:38 , Raph Frank wrote:

> 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?

Sorry, I misread the intention in a hurry.

> 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.

Here we are quite close to confusing the voters. If each small  
district has different candidates and each voter can vote at any  
station, then maybe we could try the (so much feared) computerized  
voting, but only so that each voter would see a screen that would  
display all the candidates that are available to him/her. The ballot  
could be generic (same to all voters). This would work also in  
geographic coordinate based scenarios.

Juho


> 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.
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