[EM] PR favoring racial minorities

[Raph Frank]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Juho <juho4880 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.)

It could actually be accomplished in reverse.

You give your name and then they print a ballot on the spot for you
listing all the required names.  Ofc, it might be easier just to have
stacks pre-printed and just give the voter the ballot that is
appropriate for them.

However, care would need to be taken to prevent the secret ballot
being compromised.  At least 100+ voters would need to be assigned the
same ballot configuration.

Another nice feature is that it would allow voters to vote at any
polling station.  If you happened to be out of the constituency for
election day, you could show your ID and then vote somewhere else.
This assumes that the PR-STV is being handled as a single
constituency.

There is also a potential security issue if the ballots are printed
slight differently for each voter.  Slightly different positions of
the characters for example could incorporate a code that IDs the
voter.

This is one of the reasons that having all the ballots printed
beforehand and being required to be identical is important.