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Securing our votes

Securing our votes

Posted Aug 13, 2007 9:05 UTC (Mon) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: Securing our votes by dlang
Parent article: Securing our votes

when you go to vote, how many selections do you make on one ballot?

In general [government] elections in the UK, which are the most important elections, usually you pick one candidate from a list of 3 or 4. So obviously counting these is easiest. Local elections are more complicated - for example the last London mayoral election in (IIRC) 2002(?) had a fantastically complicated series of ballots with transferable votes which I don't think even voters really understood well.

Anyway, all are counted by hand.

Perhaps the lesson here is that you should simplify the ballots? If the ballots are too complicated to be counted by hand, do the voters themselves understand or care enough about them?

Rich.


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