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Point of order: the electorate is 114,000 people who can vote at any one of the 86 booths. Or by mail. Or absentee somewhere else. The booth itself had 110 peop
by jackvalentine 6y ago
Point of order: the electorate is 114,000 people who can vote at any one of the 86 booths. Or by mail. Or absentee somewhere else. The booth itself had 110 people vote there. I’ve since found another with only 98!
I personally think your fears are misplaced. If a small community is going to go after people for their votes they know each other well enough to go after each other with proxies for their vote instead.
This isn’t really an electoral problem at this point, it’s a regular small town rumour and innuendo problem.
- notahacker 6y agoSure, if there are other voting options available to voters in that locality that don't involve using that station and the records of which station eligible voters voted at aren't widely accessible, that eliminates the ballot secrecy issue - thanks for the clarification. The problem with people going after each other based on perceived ethnic/religious/education/wealth divides or things they've actually said may exist in politically fractious small towns regardless of electoral design, but very small voter pools means your identifiable fringe minority's chance of being on the end of a reprisal is linked to how/if you actually vote. And that really is a ballot secrecy issue.