> On 4 Jun 2015, at 00:41, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3 June 2015 at 19:11, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net > <mailto:em...@mikepeel.net>> wrote: > >> >>> On 3 Jun 2015, at 23:48, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 3 June 2015 at 18:42, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> By the way, my understanding is that the practice of generating a >> public >>>>> list of voters who cast ballots, while keeping the nature of their >> votes >>>>> private, is relatively common in election processes in general. In the >>>>> United States, political parties use this information for their "get >> out >>>>> the vote" campaigns so that they know which of their likely supporters >>>> have >>>>> yet to vote. >>>> >>>> In UK political elections I think that would be illegal...{{citation >>>> needed}} >>>> >>>> They certainly exist in Canada, and I'm quite certain they exist in the >> UK >>> as well, because that's how the official poll watchers (or scrutineers, >> as >>> we call them in Canada) know who to "get out" when getting out the >>> vote. They don't get published online, but there is a right to examine >>> the list of individuals who can vote at the office of the local senior >>> election official for a few weeks afterward, and then at the national >>> election office once any challenges have been completed. Of course in >>> places where voting is mandatory, the failure to vote is going to be >> public. >> >> Wow. I'm very far from being an expert on the UK voting system, but my >> understanding is that although the list of who can vote may be made public >> (where voters have agreed to this), who has not yet voted (or, after the >> fact, who has not voted) would never be made public. In the UK, election >> scrutineers would only be involved in reviewing votes that had been cast, >> not who had not voted. >> >> > It occurred to me that there's this really great online reference source > called Wikipedia that's generally pretty accurate when it comes to things > like this, so I looked up "Electoral roll". In the UK, "[a]fter an > election a 'Marked Register' can be inspected, which is a copy of the > register used for the election with a mark by each elector that has > voted."[1] > > As I said...while it's generally accurate, sometimes it's incomplete. I > note the absence of any information about Canada there, although it is > fairly close to the UK system as discussed in the article. > > Risker/Anne
Interesting! It doesn't seem to be referenced in the enwp article (I've just tagged it as needing a citation), but I'll look into in on the morrow! (All I wanted to do when I sent my first email was to point out that it wasn't clearly indicated that the record of who voted in this election would be made public, even though I have no issue with it being public, but let's argue about this anyway!) Thanks, Mike (Apologies for the sarcasm. It's been a long day.) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
