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Special Provisions For Minority Groups
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Criteria specifying fairness for minority groups within a country focus on the electoral outcome, rather than the process, of redistricting. Electoral systems that rely on single-member districts, ...
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Making The Decision To Use GIS For Redistricting
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Countries contemplating the use of GIS for redistricting need to give careful consideration to the advantages and disadvantages of introducing a GIS. The reasons for adopting such a system need to ...
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Technology For Boundary Delimitation
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Technology can be a very effective tool for conducting electoral boundary delimitation, or redistributions of electoral boundaries. Powerful mapping technologies in particular, such as geographical...
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Use Of Computers and Software For Delimitation – ACE
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Computers can be extremely useful in the delimitation process. They can reduce the time required to draw redistricting plans and also aid in the evaluation of plans. They can produce detailed maps ...
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Using GIS To Draw District Boundaries – ACE
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Redistricting can be carried out using manual techniques - colour markers, paper maps, and calculators - or using sophisticated computers and GIS software. The technology employed does not change t...
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Getting to the CORE
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The first five of the eight activities listed above—up to dispute adjudication—are almost invariably conducted by various forms of EMBs (i.e., the executive branch of government, officials under th...
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Proxy Voting – ACE
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In a very few systems, voters who fulfill certain legislative qualifications may be able to appoint a proxy voter to vote for them. A proxy vote may be given where a voter is unable to attend a vot...
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Physically Handicapped Voters – ACE
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It may seem that providing assistance to physically or visually handicapped voters falls into the category of a luxury service, an add-on that could be considered in highly developed countries if t...
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Other Special Voting Arrangements
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Arrangements to provide voting services that cater to the needs of particular minority or disadvantaged segments of the community are an important part of maintaining accessibility and equity in vo...
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Marginalised Voters And Groups With Special Needs – ACE
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In every election, and indeed in every possible voter education programme, there are special groups who require particular attention. There are certain groups that have emerged with some frequency
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