[EM] PR favoring racial minorities

[Juho]

One could use also the coordinates of the homes of the voters and get  
rid of some of the polling station location related speculation. (One  
would be pretty much forced to use the computerized (personal)  
candidate lists that I mentioned in my other mail.)

Juho


On Aug 26, 2008, at 10:22 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:

> Juho 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).
>
> Well, since we're already talking about logistics-heavy methods,  
> how about this: Take the location of the candidate (his home). Then  
> order the polling stations by distance from that location. Find the  
> number p at which the circle given by the radius drawn from the  
> candidate's home to polling station #p on the sorted list (closer  
> first) encompasses more than N seats worth of population. Then the  
> candidate is listed on the ballot in polling stations 1 to (p-1) on  
> the sorted list, inclusive.
>
> If the politicians have any influence in where the polling stations  
> are placed, they would want to put them more or less evenly so that  
> if, for instance, all polling stations are to the North of a  
> candidate, one would add some to the South too, to get on more  
> ballots.
>
> Strategic house buying would be funny! Perhaps parties would have  
> "candidate houses", all of which are carefully located so as to  
> maximize the effect, and new candidates are given one of them to  
> stay in for as long as he's a candidate.
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