Sentences with phrase «voting system designed»

We do not have a voting system designed to produce a parliament that reflects our society, so we should not be surprised that parts of the electorate are under - represented.

STV is a voting system designed to achieve a (more or less) proportional result.

Their messaging and use of technology unpicked a voting system designed to create coalitions.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

Not exact matches

As the Financial Times (whose writer also testified) reported, a diamond - registration blockchain exec noted that the system was «garbage in, garbage out,» and a researcher designing blockchain - based voting systems said the technology would only be useful for recording final results, rather than validating individual votes.

Originally designing electronic voting systems, the company soon moved on to designing and manufacturing scoreboards and other equipment for arenas.

But there isn't such a computer, and without proportional representation, our valiant efforts at voting our principles are undermined or rendered neutral by a crude system designed to favour incumbents and lower expectations of what is possible.

Specifically, the theorem states that there's no way to design a voting system such that all three of these criteria hold:

Or, alternatively, if you're asking a general voting - system design question (i.e. «How can I make this thing I'm designing work»), that's also valid, but you should make that explicit.

Those counties where an elite can manage the economy in their own interest exist now, though usually because of corruption or dictatorship not because the voting system is designed this way.

The second set of seats (20) are won at a larger regional area using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

This system is designed to avoid a situation where a party receives a large share of the votes in an area but doesn't actually get many seats (e.g. coming a close second in every constituency but not winning any).

Our voting system was designed for two blocs: a government and an opposition.

I applaud the Vote Better NY coalition's efforts to modernize the system and its support for early voting, expanded voter registration and calls for a clear and concise ballot design.»

The second set of seats (11) are won at a «London - wide» level using a system called «proportional representation», and is designed to ensure that no party wins either far more or far fewer seats than the share of votes they received.

Intuitively, you can design a non-manipulable voting system like this: you draw a voter at random, and the outcome (which is a probability distribution on the candidates) depends only on her ballot.

You can also design a non-manipulable voting system like this: you draw two candidates at random, and voters choose between these two according to a specific voting rule (for example simple majority).

What lies behind all this is our antiquated voting system — literally designed for two parties.

They're still nationalists, so they'll vote with the SNP on all the issues that matter, but it reveals a crack in the portrait of Salmond as a crafty and successful British politician — the man who could build a majority in a political system specifically designed to prevent them.

Specifically, the theorem states that there's no way to design a voting system such that all three of these criteria hold: If every voter prefers alternative X over alternative Y, then the group prefers X over Y.

«There are many things a good electoral system should do, but the most fundamental is ensuring that how people have voted is broadly reflected in the make - up of Parliament... We use an electoral system designed for there being just two political parties, when in reality we have a multi-party system.»

Legislator Lou D'Amaro (D - North Babylon) said before the floor vote that he didn't believe the appraisal rating system was designed to be considered a threshold for whether or not a particular parcel could ever be purchased.

Technology CAN however, allow for the general improvement in voting in terms of designing and implementing a system fully transmittable and calculable and verifiable over the internet.

«I think the voting public increasingly believes that they will not see competitive elections by and large, and it's a reflection of a system that is designed to be an incumbency protection machine,» said Horner.

In 2007, the Holyrood and Scottish council elections took place on the same day, and saw the introduction of a new design of ballot paper for the parliament vote and a new voting system for the council seats.

«There's no validation of how the software for these systems is designed and built,» Hallem says, adding that this is «surprising given the importance of voting machines to our national infrastructure.»

Acemyan said that more secure methods of voting — such as STAR - Vote and Prêt à Voter, the enhanced security system used in this study — are designed knowing that there is always the potential for malicious attacks on voting systems to manipulate and alter election results.

This is a three part module designed for KS2 explaining democracy in straightforward terms, including: - what democracy means - how the system of voting and elections works in the UK - the way that local, national and European government works - an overview of how an idea becomes a law This includes a PowerPoint presentation and an activities sheet.

In order to make decisions about investments, Swarm designed a voting system that uses the SWM tokens to determine the outcome.

The start - up says its Ethereum - built platform enables users to design voting systems to quickly gather feedback on important topics.