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