Voting System Reform Commission

[ilikeverin]

What everyone else is saying.

[ilikeverin]

This is why i tried to get things changed in the bill.
Nothing good will come of this because everyone on the commission with the exception of KEmperor potentially has something to lose.

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[ilikeverin]

If the tactical voters know who has voted, they can make at least an educated guess as to which way the results are trending, and vote accordingly. Obviously they would never have the advantage they do now, but they still might be able to eek something out.

I don't think tactical voters would really pay that mcuh attention.  I think most tactical voters vote based on either media results (which would be incomplete) or on a vague sense of who's winning coming from the voting both... they won't expend the effort to track down who voted secretly, attempt to make a preference list for that voter, and tabulate the results from there.

[ilikeverin]

It appears that the majority of the nation does not want a secret ballot, and I don't even know if a majority of the commission does.

We are not here to count heads, we are here to report feasibility. Even so, whilst apparently a majority have said that they will not use a secret ballot, this does not mean to say that some of them do not support it. I personally will not use the secret ballot - I have said this before and I will say it as many times as I am asked, yet I do support the underlying concept if it can be shown to be practical.

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Except I support it if it isn't practical (just kidding, of course )

[ilikeverin]

The questions that need to be resolved:

1. Yes (though I can be swayed)
2. Yes
3. #1 or #2

[ilikeverin]

For the record, I support it.