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Originally Posted by Michael Cule
I think they call gerrymandering impossible and any system that has electoral districts gerrymandering.
And why is this system more corruptible than another? A computer gives you a number and that's the constituency you vote in. There's no point in limiting the voting facilities at a particular location since the voters could live anywhere. There's still a point in making voter registration difficult for particular classes of people but that would probably be handled remotely by computers anyway.
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It needn't be a computerized system - the day you were born would work just as well as any other number - and it can still be worthwhile to have geographic voting barriers - as long as more people in an area support one party over another making it hard for the ones that can't easily travel somewhere else to vote can give your party an edge, it's just diffused over all the voting districts.