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> What fractionalized votes can do: > They allow “weighting” of races. Weighting a race removes the principle of “one person-one vote” to allow some votes to b
by legostormtroopr 10y ago
> What fractionalized votes can do:
> They allow “weighting” of races. Weighting a race removes the principle of “one person-one vote” to allow some votes to be counted as less than one or more than one.
This is extremely inflammatory language. What I think they mean is:
> They allow “weighting” of electoral contests. Weighting an electoral contest removes the principle of “one person-one vote” to allow some votes to be counted as less than one or more than one.
However, what they wrote seems to heavily imply a racial bias to electronic elections. Why they would choose to use such racially charged language around such a benign topic at this time seems only to drive links to their site over such a non-controversial issue.
- vilhelm_s 10y agoNote that the "races" wording is taken from the voting machine manual. But I agree, it seems kindof deliberate.
- grzm 10y agoI think they're using "race" in the contest/competition sense, aren't they? For other uses in the article: "The “Summary” vote tally, which provides overall election totals for each race on Election Night" and "Presidential race in an entire state switched in four seconds" Granted, they could have chosen other language that's less likely to be misconstrued. As for the choice of language, I don't think the article is all that well written (for another example, mixing "fractional" and "decimal" to mean the same thing). I don't think there was that much thought put into the language.