Talk:Voting/Archive 2

Linked
I linked the Page Voteing to this Page, though it it is under criticism. Please Correct me if I'm wrong. 77.99.179.16 (talk) 21:12, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

Method of voting
I removed this section and the short list below from the article. I don't believe that it's quite ready to be included and requires some though. A ballot box is not a "method of voting" as it's simply a storage location for ballots (paper or otherwise). Postal and electronic voting are closer to voting methods, as they generally refer to processes, but I'm still not certain they are methods. Electronic voting can include a ballot box (see Optical scan voting system) and electronic voting can be done using a number of different methods (even including remote ones).

Further, the broad description this article supplies for "voting" (including registration, distribution of ballots, selection, tabulation and proclamation) far outreaches the simple list below.


 * Ballot box
 * Postal voting (by mail)
 * Voting machine
 * Electronic voting

-- Electiontechnology (talk) 20:03, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Privacy of voting
I've looked at a few different voting-related pages on wikipedia, and NONE of them mentioned anything about voting being private (ie no one except the counters know what your vote is) or public. I believe anecdotally that most voting is done in private. However, I'd like to see some discussion on the pros and cons of private voting vs public voting. Fresheneesz (talk) 19:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Election and voting
The topics of voting and election are distinct, though with overlap. Too much of this article is specifically about political elections, duplicating the election article. Voting is a technique used for election (selection, choosing) of office-holders. There are other aspects of elections not directly concerned with voting. Voting is used in other contexts than politics. The articles on voting and election need revising to reflect this. Pol098 (talk) 03:42, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed. CaribDigita (talk) 03:03, 18 May 2014 (UTC)


 * sofixit.
 * I agree that it is better for this article to have only a short summary of elections, and refer to the "election" article for more details, rather than trying to duplicate all that information in both places.
 * I agree that the current "voting" article completely neglects the other sorts of voting that occur in politics -- ballot questions and direct democracy -- as well as voting that occurs outside politics.
 * I added a little to this article mentioning one of these neglected areas.
 * If you see neglected areas that could be filled in or other ways to make Wikipedia better, I urge you to edit this article directly to make those improvements, as I did, rather than waiting for someone else to do it. --DavidCary (talk) 15:42, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Democracy, republic, etc.
Some care needed to distinguish these ideas. Democracy is defined by voting, I think. Representative democracy elects representatives; democracy and voting need not involve representatives (though in modern large societies there's no practical alternative). Plenty of states called republics are arguably not democratic; examples are the single-party state exemplified by the Soviet Socialist Republics (the R in USSR), and republics where elections are not held for years after a coup d'etat. Pol098 (talk) 03:48, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Discuss merge from voting method
See talk:voting method there for context. Homunq (࿓) 18:39, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Transclusion of the discussion
Following is a transclusion of the discussion to here, as this would be the target page. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 09:13, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

As suggested: Merge to Voting Homunq (࿓) 18:37, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ==Merge==
 * Oppose I think there's enough here for a standalone article. Number   5  7  20:15, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support - with redirect I think the voting method fits thematically more as a subset of the larger voting article, and as such can easily fit into the voting article. From a narrative perspective, it is more useful to learn about voting methods after you've read something about voting, rather than voting methods on their own.  We can see what a merge would look like since I already added this article's content to the voting article Voting. All that would have to happen to support this vote is to replace this article with a redirect to that section. TimTempleton (talk)  (cont)  21:52, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support Agree with TimTempleton's arguments. Also, this title is contested (I believe that the term is far more widely used for electoral systems). I think that moving the material to voting and having a dab page here is a reasonable compromise for that debate. Homunq (࿓) 17:52, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Support a move although #1 it is unclear whether it belongs in Electoral Systems, Election, or Voting, and #2 the article organization I believe is incongruent, and its current naming contradicts the literature, so once that is repaired it might stand in its own article if not deleted (please see new section below). Filingpro (talk) 21:40, 6 August 2017 (UTC) TimTempleton's naming is an improvement , as the article stands now, (as are other names that have been suggested e.g. voting apparatus, balloting method etc.) Filingpro (talk) 08:57, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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Indicative vote
It looks like the brits use indicative vote. This is no detailed in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.185.253.101 (talk) 21:33, 1 April 2019 (UTC)