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perlgeek
on April 26, 2011
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A “perfect” voting system
Have fun scratching off the tissue from millions of votes.
Even if it's statistically sound, it's not practical, because it doesn't scale.
rudiger
on April 26, 2011
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There may be issues with the above solution, but scratching off tickets isn't one of them. Do you know how inefficient the process of counting votes can be
now
? You might think that it is impractical, or that it "doesn't scale", but they manage.
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Even if it's statistically sound, it's not practical, because it doesn't scale.