Just asking... How about a "None of the above" vote.. That can win.
If none of the above wins - the current office holder stays but a new vote is taken with new candidates. The process continues until someone is voted in.
Oh and online voting in America - DO NOT WANT EITHER.
Is that true? Do they have to be new candidates, or can the same people run again? Where I live (but can't vote), "none of the above" votes go to the majority... so people rather don't vote if they don't like anyone or tamper with the ballot, so it can't be counted.
Posting out voting codes would break the secret ballot, as codes are linked to people (even if promises were made to destroy the link data after the poll).
Not if you send the encrypted vote to one office (that cant read the encryption) where your id is checked and the code is removed, and then they send that to an independant office where the vote is decrypted and counted. Like they do with snail mail voting, using multiple envelopes, one with your name, and the other one inside with your vote.
Also the coercion problem is removed if you are allowed to vote several times, and only the last vote counts. Your boss --or whoever-- would have to watch you day and night to make sure you didn't change your vote. Also, you always could go to a physical ballot and change your vote even after the online vote period ends. Phyiscal votes would take precedence over online ones, you couldn't do away with them anyway.
Estonia I can almost forgive, as they're relatively poor and didn't have much time to go from Soviet-era attitudes to something saner. They should still have done more.
Estonia is doing some
interesting things online. They seem to have progressed from that Soviet era attitude you mention.
...would make things a whole lot easier. Over here, we specify wire gauges as the diameter (in mm^2) How is using a quadratic scale easier than a -log scale?
Not to mention data degradation as the needle passes over the groove for the hundredth time... CDs degrade too, and you don't even have to listen to them. We don't know yet how long our precise, exact copy of the original will last. Acording to ISO (18921:2002), maybe 50 years? On the other hand, some of the first vinyl recordings made (and properly stored analog tapes), a century old, still work.
CDs have a lot of advantages, but logevity is not one of them.
Yes, and almost all (if not all, by definition anyway) of our foreign embassies are not in the USA, yet they aren't any less ours.
Actually, by definition, all your foreign embassies are on USian ground. But they depend on the foreign countries to accept and support them. Just like the net.
It's our baby, we can do with it what we want, when we want. Sorry, but that's the way it is.
Yeah, like CERN could kill "their baby" WWW any time. The net does not belong to only you anymore.
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Just asking... How about a "None of the above" vote.. That can win.
If none of the above wins - the current office holder stays but a new vote is taken with new candidates. The process continues until someone is voted in.
Oh and online voting in America - DO NOT WANT EITHER.
Is that true? Do they have to be new candidates, or can the same people run again? Where I live (but can't vote), "none of the above" votes go to the majority... so people rather don't vote if they don't like anyone or tamper with the ballot, so it can't be counted.
Posting out voting codes would break the secret ballot, as codes are linked to people (even if promises were made to destroy the link data after the poll).
Not if you send the encrypted vote to one office (that cant read the encryption) where your id is checked and the code is removed, and then they send that to an independant office where the vote is decrypted and counted. Like they do with snail mail voting, using multiple envelopes, one with your name, and the other one inside with your vote.
Also the coercion problem is removed if you are allowed to vote several times, and only the last vote counts. Your boss --or whoever-- would have to watch you day and night to make sure you didn't change your vote. Also, you always could go to a physical ballot and change your vote even after the online vote period ends. Phyiscal votes would take precedence over online ones, you couldn't do away with them anyway.
PS- Slashdot preview is not working for me.
I actually had to google to find your source; if you're actually at the site you may as well paste the url in
Where is the source, then? I can't find may way around that website http://www.eiu.com/.
There is this girl/woman in Brazil, Maria Aldenete, who has similar syntoms. I couldn't find any info in English on her... She's 30 years old or so.
Well, there are sources that disagree.
>Hopefully this initiative and wikibooks work together: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
They do.
Unlike the Ocean, once sand rises up against the wall it isn't going to flow back out later.
Unlike the ocean? Same thing happens there. Actually in some places walls are constructed along coastlines to trap sand for beach nourishment.
Consider a spherical isotropic homogeneous cow... it would have quite low drag coefficient.
Estonia is doing some interesting things online. They seem to have progressed from that Soviet era attitude you mention.
...would make things a whole lot easier. Over here, we specify wire gauges as the diameter (in mm^2) How is using a quadratic scale easier than a -log scale?And besides, CD cases can never contain all the cover art data presented in a full LP sleeve.
Actually, by definition, all your foreign embassies are on USian ground. But they depend on the foreign countries to accept and support them. Just like the net.
It's our baby, we can do with it what we want, when we want. Sorry, but that's the way it is.
Yeah, like CERN could kill "their baby" WWW any time. The net does not belong to only you anymore.