This request is for using a touch screen for labor
elections, therefore this request may conflict with voting standards as we
know them.
It
couldn't be a conflict; just (yet) another voting
option.
Can a smart card be programmed so that it will allow
the user to vote a specified number of times. A delegate would declare the number of
ballots that he is able to vote for.
We can do just about anything.
Example:
A person would be allowed to vote the ballot 5 times. This would be determined at time of
smart card burning. The voter
could continue to vote the same ballot and a counter would be incremented
until the voter used up the specified number of ballots.
A
few questions:
Is the number of votes the same for all
smart cards created, or does it potentially change every time a new card is
created? What is the potential range of votes a delegate can
have?
Is the smart card locked into the machine
until they use up all their votes, or can they stop and vote some more
later? Are the votes transferable to other
voters?
If the votes must be used all at once by
one voter, then is the union open to other paradigms that accomplish
the same thing? Or more to the point, this is just proportional
voting. No point in giving them five ballots. Give them one ballot,
and let them distribute their votes among the candidates in one pass. Five
votes for candidate A, or three votes for A and two for B,
etc.
As an aside, it would have to be a pretty
big union to afford this kind of change, but hey maybe the teamsters are trying
to elect Hoffa's son again?
Ken
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