RE: Election Results/International

[Borras John - e-Envoy e-Government -<johnborras@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk>]

Tim
Within our e-democracy programme here in UK, we are looking at all voting
that is required by statute. So that would include for us votes taken by our
Trade Unions where they have calculated votes based on delegate allocations,
which sounds the same as the situations you quote, unless I've
mis-interpreted what you're saying?  It seems reasonable therefore to work
on the basis that there could be more than one reported result.
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bovee [mailto:tbovee@ap.org]
Sent: 22 August 2001 17:54
To: election-services@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Election Results/International


I'm looking at the issue of reporting votes in an international context,
with an eye specifically to ensuring election-agency reports will work
smoothly with news-media election systems.

In the United States, results from the secretaries of state, who handle
elections, are votes only, although there are types of elections where
other results are calculated downstream. 

For example: 

Presidential races have popular votes (reported), but also electoral
votes (calculated). 

Some party presidential primaries have popular votes (reported), but
also delegate allocations (calculated).

The question then would be should there be provision for more than one
REPORTED result from an election authority for a candidate in a race in
an election?

Regards,

Tim
-- 
Tim Bovee, Director of Projects/Technology
The Associated Press, Washington
202-776-9465, tbovee@ap.org

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