Stupid idea of the day

[andrewducker]

If voting took place over a couple of days, with counting going on simultaneously, and the results available in real time, then this would encourage more people to participate as time went on, if they saw that the result was close, and thus their vote mattered.

Has this ever been tried, and if so, what appalling side-effects did it have?

Comments

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

We in Scotland do have electronic counting exclusively for our primary elections (Member of Scottish Parliament).

We vote on paper as stated above, these are scanned at high speed and tallied on non-open source machines.

[matgb]

And for the locals so that the STV results can be calculated easily.

But it's counting only, the voting is still done properly.