I was just wondering if there is any way to follow election results. I found a link to see who has not voted yet but I was wondering if we can see current results, not who voted for who just total votes cast for and against issues and candidated.
Unfortunately not, the results will be revealed all at once when the deadline has passed.
Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 16, 2026, 11:12:46 AMI was just wondering if there is any way to follow election results. I found a link to see who has not voted yet but I was wondering if we can see current results, not who voted for who just total votes cast for and against issues and candidated.
The core trouble is that would blow up ballot secrecy. If the system reports a live record of who voted,
and a live total of current results, then someone can copy both down, and when the next vote comes, in, they know both who voted
and how they voted (because they can see which totals changed).
Quote from: Istefan Perþonest on August 16, 2026, 07:04:17 PMQuote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 16, 2026, 11:12:46 AMI was just wondering if there is any way to follow election results. I found a link to see who has not voted yet but I was wondering if we can see current results, not who voted for who just total votes cast for and against issues and candidated.
The core trouble is that would blow up ballot secrecy. If the system reports a live record of who voted, and a live total of current results, then someone can copy both down, and when the next vote comes, in, they know both who voted and how they voted (because they can see which totals changed).
Didn't really want to know who voted just a running total like you see on tv in the United States
Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 17, 2026, 09:26:21 AMDidn't really want to know who voted just a running total like you see on tv in the United States
You don't have that in the US either, what you see during Election Night are the numbers coming in as they count all the ballots after the polls are closed.
Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on August 17, 2026, 09:29:35 AMQuote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 17, 2026, 09:26:21 AMDidn't really want to know who voted just a running total like you see on tv in the United States
You don't have that in the US either, what you see during Election Night are the numbers coming in as they count all the ballots after the polls are closed.
Okay true, I guess the difference is in how long the election runs in Talossa LOL
Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on August 17, 2026, 09:29:35 AMQuote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 17, 2026, 09:26:21 AMDidn't really want to know who voted just a running total like you see on tv in the United States
You don't have that in the US either, what you see during Election Night are the numbers coming in as they count all the ballots after the polls are closed.
Yeah, especially when election nights were more of an event in the years before COVID, we theorised releasing results province by province to simulate precinct results coming in. The consensus was that there's so few voters in certain provinces, especially swing voters, that you would be able to pretty much figure out what everyone voted.