Re:VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote
by skybrian on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:56PM
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You might have a point if voting were equally inconvenient for everyone. But actually, it's convenient for some and inconvenient for others.
Think about taking public transportation in a rural area where transit sucks versus driving. The people who take public transit have to take more time to vote (let's say an extra half hour each way) than those who can drive, who in turn have to be more dedicated than the people who live right next to the polling station and just walk over.
Furthermore, this level of convenience can be manipulated to get the results you want.
From a data quality point of view, we'd probably be better off with some kind of unbiased random sampling, but that goes against tradition.
Think about taking public transportation in a rural area where transit sucks versus driving. The people who take public transit have to take more time to vote (let's say an extra half hour each way) than those who can drive, who in turn have to be more dedicated than the people who live right next to the polling station and just walk over.
Furthermore, this level of convenience can be manipulated to get the results you want.
From a data quality point of view, we'd probably be better off with some kind of unbiased random sampling, but that goes against tradition.