Comments on: Open-Audit Voting means a Single Vote Counts http://benlog.com/articles/2009/03/06/open-audit-voting-means-a-single-vote-counts/ security, privacy, transparency. Thu, 17 May 2012 19:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ben http://benlog.com/articles/2009/03/06/open-audit-voting-means-a-single-vote-counts/comment-page-1/#comment-508095 ben Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:07:29 +0000 http://benlog.com/?p=466#comment-508095 I understand that weighing the votes sounds weird at first, but consider the context. This is the election of the President of the *University*, where faculty stay for a career, and students stay for 4 years. Students outnumber Faculty by a factor of 10 or more. So, to not weigh the votes would mean handing the decision to the Students and the Faculty would have no input on their President. Now, whether you're doing fractions or integers, it doesn't matter, right? Just multiply everything by 100 if you'd rather have integers :) I understand that weighing the votes sounds weird at first, but consider the context. This is the election of the President of the *University*, where faculty stay for a career, and students stay for 4 years. Students outnumber Faculty by a factor of 10 or more. So, to not weigh the votes would mean handing the decision to the Students and the Faculty would have no input on their President.

Now, whether you’re doing fractions or integers, it doesn’t matter, right? Just multiply everything by 100 if you’d rather have integers :)

]]> By: ben http://benlog.com/articles/2009/03/06/open-audit-voting-means-a-single-vote-counts/comment-page-1/#comment-632041 ben Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:07:00 +0000 http://benlog.com/?p=466#comment-632041 I understand that weighing the votes sounds weird at first, but consider the context. This is the election of the President of the *University*, where faculty stay for a career, and students stay for 4 years. Students outnumber Faculty by a factor of 10 or more. So, to not weigh the votes would mean handing the decision to the Students and the Faculty would have no input on their President. Now, whether you're doing fractions or integers, it doesn't matter, right? Just multiply everything by 100 if you'd rather have integers :) I understand that weighing the votes sounds weird at first, but consider the context. This is the election of the President of the *University*, where faculty stay for a career, and students stay for 4 years. Students outnumber Faculty by a factor of 10 or more. So, to not weigh the votes would mean handing the decision to the Students and the Faculty would have no input on their President.

Now, whether you’re doing fractions or integers, it doesn’t matter, right? Just multiply everything by 100 if you’d rather have integers :)

]]> By: AllAboutVoting http://benlog.com/articles/2009/03/06/open-audit-voting-means-a-single-vote-counts/comment-page-1/#comment-508081 AllAboutVoting Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:44:05 +0000 http://benlog.com/?p=466#comment-508081 >Students each got approximately 1/10 of a vote, >while Faculty got a full vote. 4000 people voted, >which resulted, after weights were applied, to >1111 votes cast. The candidate with the highest >number of votes received 555.44 votes, which is >barely one vote short of an absolute majority. Humor me by dwelling on this for a bit. Students had fractional votes? What was the fraction? Why did they choose to do this? If they wanted to have vote weights why not have them all be integer weights? >Students each got approximately 1/10 of a vote,
>while Faculty got a full vote. 4000 people voted,
>which resulted, after weights were applied, to
>1111 votes cast. The candidate with the highest
>number of votes received 555.44 votes, which is
>barely one vote short of an absolute majority.
Humor me by dwelling on this for a bit. Students had fractional votes? What was the fraction? Why did
they choose to do this? If they wanted to have vote
weights why not have them all be integer weights?

]]> By: AllAboutVoting http://benlog.com/articles/2009/03/06/open-audit-voting-means-a-single-vote-counts/comment-page-1/#comment-632040 AllAboutVoting Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:44:00 +0000 http://benlog.com/?p=466#comment-632040 >Students each got approximately 1/10 of a vote, >while Faculty got a full vote. 4000 people voted, >which resulted, after weights were applied, to >1111 votes cast. The candidate with the highest >number of votes received 555.44 votes, which is >barely one vote short of an absolute majority. Humor me by dwelling on this for a bit. Students had fractional votes? What was the fraction? Why did they choose to do this? If they wanted to have vote weights why not have them all be integer weights? >Students each got approximately 1/10 of a vote,
>while Faculty got a full vote. 4000 people voted,
>which resulted, after weights were applied, to
>1111 votes cast. The candidate with the highest
>number of votes received 555.44 votes, which is
>barely one vote short of an absolute majority.
Humor me by dwelling on this for a bit. Students had fractional votes? What was the fraction? Why did
they choose to do this? If they wanted to have vote
weights why not have them all be integer weights?

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