On 6/11/06, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The simplest > form of Asset is actually standard single-vote with revoting allowed. > This could be done with any election equipment.
Are you saying have multiple elections? (expensive & a hassle) Or something like early voting where the polls are open for a week or two? (in which case, how can you "take back" your previous vote, if the voting is by secret ballot?) > It is only the more > complex forms of asset that require more complex counting. FAAV, > Fractional Approval Asset, would use existing voting equipment but > does require more complex calculation when the votes are summed. Mechanical and other non-programmable voting machines can't handle FAAV. Machines such as the Diebold Accuvote are programmed with an EPROM, and that would need reprogramming to properly count the votes. I doubt any existing voting machines are set up to do fractional approval as you have defined it. Some voting machines allow you vote for up to N, for multiwinner elections. > It would be best, I'd suggest, if full ballot data is transmitted. Sure. That seems to be how they do IRV elections, and at least some others. I thought it was interesting that Burlington, Vermont BORROWED the EPROM chips from Cambridge, MA to do their IRV election! Cheers, - Jan ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info