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Re: Sainthood via Seniority Simulation

by perrin (Chancellor)
on Nov 05, 2003 at 04:24 UTC ( [id://304621]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Sainthood via Seniority Simulation

And if you do show up every day, and vote intelligently, you deserve to be a saint. Voters are important, or so they told me at my polling place in Brooklyn this morning.

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Re: Sainthood via Seniority Simulation
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 05, 2003 at 09:16 UTC
    And if you do show up every day, and vote intelligently, you deserve to be a saint.
    Of course, the person who casts all his N votes on the first N posts he encounters (and casts all of them --) gets rewarded as much as casting them by any other strategy.

    Perlmonks rewards voting, and it doesn't discriminate between an "intelligent" vote and a "vote to get XP".

    Voters are important, or so they told me at my polling place in Brooklyn this morning.
    But any democracy who doesn't want to be become the laughing stock of the world doesn't hand out goodies in the voting boots.

    Abigail

      Interestingly, quite a number of countries have compulsary voting. According to this list, at least 15 countries have a fine for not voting, and in 3, you can actualy be imprisioned for it. This seems tantamount to handing out goodies in the voting booths.

      As to your first point, there's little way to tell the difference between somebody voting randomly and somebody voting intelegently. I'm told that there are some statistical analisies performed to catch potential votebots, however I can't discuss the details (because I don't know them).


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        Well, to be pedantic, not all of the countries mentioned have compulsary voting. Belgium for instance require you to show up at the voting station, but you don't actually have to cast a legal vote. Still, it's a short list, most countries don't have mandatory voting, and it's certainly not uniformly accepted to be a good thing.

        The article also links to http://www.int-idea.se/vt/analysis/Compulsory_Voting.cfm which points out some of the drawbacks of mandatory voting (random voting for instance).

        Abigail

      Perlmonks rewards voting, and it doesn't discriminate between an "intelligent" vote and a "vote to get XP".
      This is consistent with governments the world over.
      But any democracy who doesn't want to be become the laughing stock of the world doesn't hand out goodies in the voting booths.
      (Spelling error corrected for clarity)
      I've always wondered why this is. I suspect that a free buffet lunch at a polling location would draw in registered voters like flies. They check your registration, you vote, you go around the buffet once or twice.

      Yeah, voters shouldn't have to be enticed. Humanity shouldn't have to be policed, either, but those systems exist. Necessary evils exist, so why encourage only the most egregious ones? Why shouldn't there be tasty baked lasagna, free for the taking if you do your civic duty?



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