Just a comment on union
elections. I know very little
about the union election market place, but from what I do know, I believe that
we are missing the boat on a considerable revenue stream. However, there are long-term
relationships that have been developed over the years between the unions and
the election companies they deal with that may be hard to break. That being said, I think that we
should explore the possibilities.
Robert
-----Original
Message-----
From: Brian
O'Connor [mailto:bocglobal@eathlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:41
PM
To:
rcr@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE:
Allow a Smart Card to be voted a specified number of times
Ken,
This is not proportional
voting.......a delegate comes from his home state or whatever as has the
authority to cast ballots for home delagates who did not attend. When
the delagate signs in, he is authorized to vote a specific number of times
based on the delagates not in attendance. The pollworked declares "vote
for 3 or vote for 5 or whatever the count", the delagate goes into the (lever)
machine and votes with the pollworker resetting the machine each
time.
There has got to be a better
way !
Yes, this is big ! HBA
does over $ 8.0 million in union elections annualy with this format and they
are not the big player in this world.
Brian
-----Original
Message-----
From:
owner-rcr@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-rcr@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Ken Clark
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:19
PM
To:
rcr@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE:
Allow a Smart Card to be voted a specified number of times
From: owner-rcr@dieboldes.com
[mailto:owner-rcr@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of
Larry Dix
Sent:
Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:20 PM
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