On 18 September 2012 09:43, Deryck Chan deryckchan@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 September 2012 08:50, Jon Davies jon.davies@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
+2
On 18 September 2012 08:43, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 September 2012 23:40, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
Frankly, I have never trusted electoral systems that rely on computers
to
the point that the votes go in, a button is pushed, and a black box
churns
out a result. I'd be much happier with a system that can if necessary
be
recounted by hand so that there's a backup just in case.
+1. Oh my goodness yes.
Multi-seat STV/ERS97 is just about hand-countable... with the tellers having to edit the ballot paper's values regularly during a transfer of surplus.
So long as we don't suddenly need to elect ten directors at once it should be doable...!