On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:55:12 -0700 (PDT), Rich Rostrom
wrote:
>One key point. How many voters to a polling place?
Can't recall if I said so previously but in our area it's 5 ballot
boxes of about 300 each in our area. We normally vote in an elementary
school gym anduming each kid in the school has two parents
eligible to vote that would about equal the catchment area of the
school.
>In Illinois, no more than 500 or so. (That can
>change if new housing is erected in the precinct,
>but the borders will be tweaked after at most
>one election. In 1972, after the Supreme Court
>ruled that states could not require over 90 days
>residence for voter registration, there was an
>enormous increase in student registrations in
>university towns. I was at the University of
>Illinois then; one area of dorms and frat houses
>went from almost no resident voters to several
>thousand in one precinct. It was fixed by 1974.)
Now that's interesting - my daughter maintained her address of record
as Vancouver even though her school was in Ottawa and went to the
effort of getting a mail ballot (for Vancouver) rather than voting for
some Ottawa politico she had never heard of before. There were two
federal elections during her time in Ottawa so it wasn't just a 'in
the spur of the moment' decision on her part.
>It's actually of no significance, AFAICT.
>
>This could lead to bizarre results.
>
>Consider this hypothetical election.
>Three parties, A, B, and C, 10
>constituencies, 100 votes.
>
> A B C
>1 6 1 3
>2 6 1 3
>3 6 1 3
>4 6 1 3
>5 1 2 7
>6 1 2 7
>7 1 2 7
>8 1 7 2
>9 1 7 2
>10 1 7 2
> 30 31 39
>
>The A Party wins the most seats but
>the B and C parties are the 2PP
>finalists.
Pretty much ANY system can come up with bizarre results including
First Past The Post
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