USPS Advances Mail-In Ballot Tracking Despite Court Challenges
The USPS is pushing forward with a plan to boost mail-in ballot security and transparency by introducing uniquely serialized barcodes that allow for individual ballot tracking. This move would enable the Postal Service to scan and monitor absentee ballots as they're sent to and from voters, providing an added layer of accountability.
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Hi all, have you ever heard about Majority Judgment as a voting system?
Here a detailled article with benefits and where it was used: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10602-022-09385-7
Here a software to try it: https://app.mieuxvoter.fr/en
I see it well also if embededd in the MMP system (MMP+MJ) to improve MMP+FPTP that is being used in Germany and New Zealand.
The majority judgment (MJ) voting method works well in theory and in practice. Not only does MJ avoid the classical Condorcet and Arrow paradoxes, but it also overcomes the domination paradox, from which paired comparisons by majority rule, approval voting, and all Condorcet consistent methods suffer. This article also shows why MJ best reduces the impact of strategic manipulation and minimizes ties to the extreme. The article illustrates the resistance of MJ to manipulations in a real example, discusses other salient properties of MJ, and summarizes several recent applications that show MJ to be, despite its newness, the right basis of electoral reform.
MAGA spirals as Trump election scheme implodes exposing hypocrisy
MAGA spirals as Trump election scheme implodes after Virginia voters approve redistricting, exposing GOP hypocrisy on election power
Here is a reminder of the kind of voting systems we have in Australia. Not all use the same system. Aside from “First past the Post’ (as in the US) which is not used here, we have ‘preferencial’ and’proportional’ voting systems. This article by #RichardDenniss in The point, clarifies this:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260324-what-the-south-australian-result-shows-about-how-elections-are-really-won
For my money, proportional is the best as in the ACT.
All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes that go through the system, without detection.
Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems
https://www.voting.works/news/public-trust-demands-open-source-voting-systems
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Former Republican election official buys Dominion Voting — a target of 2020 conspiracy theories
Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official. KNOWiNK, a St. Louis-based provider of electronic poll books, announced the deal Thursday and said it was changing its name to Liberty Vote. Dominion’s former CEO confirmed the sale. In a statement, the new company vowed to follow the executive order Trump signed last spring seeking sweeping changes to election policies. While that might raise concerns in Democratic-leaning states, some election officials said that KNOWiNK had steered clear of 2020 conspiracy theories and acted like a typical, nonpartisan firm.
Gerrymandering seems a feature of
majoritarian elections (i.e. not proportional)
in single-member districts
(it is affected by multiple factors, of course).
And it is an example of one of the many positive-feedback loops in politics:
if one side does it, the other will as well.
Remember the rotten boroughs in Great Britain?
It took serious legislation to abolish them.
(The Reform Act of 1832.)
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