Voting Systems
Voting Systems
Voting Systems Links
- How the Net can transform voting MSNBC article comparing Borda to Approval voting. Goes into the history of Approval voting.
- Declared-Strategy Voting Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election)
- Election Methods Mailing List Discussion of single-winner election reform, the relative merits of different proportional representation systems, and the technical underpinnings of all election methods.
- Condorcet's Method A pairwise election system where ranked ballots are used to simulate many head-to-head elections, where the winner is the candidate who wins all pairings.
- International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.
- Making Sense out of Consensus SIAM News article about Borda, Condorcet, and Approval voting which uses the Jesse Ventura victory in Minnesota as primary example.
- Fair System Advocates a system in which poor people are given proportionally greater voting power than wealthier people.
- Democracy Evolves This site explains the best voting methods for elections and meetings. Free software included.
- Voting Systems FAQ Phil Hunt's FAQ which describes many commonly discussed voting systems, as well as key voting concepts, and use of various systems around the world.
- Elections: Results and Voting systems Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.
- How Democracy Works Explanation two-party politics against left-right spectrum. Asserts that in perfect elections, candidates will appear equally imperfect, elections' voter turnout will often be low, and all elections will end in near ties.
- Election Methods Website Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods.
- PR-Squared A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation.
- May the Best Man Lose Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams.
- election.com - the Global Election Company Ballot design for both paper and Internet elections, anywhere in the world for associations, organizations, unions, and government and political groups.
- Approval Voting A voting procedure in which voters can vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they wish. Each candidate approved of receives one vote, and the candidate with the most votes wins.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods
- Democracy Science Various articles on democracy: electoral method and the scientific method
- The Center for Voting and Democracy Organization that researches how voting systems affect participation, representation and governance. Advocates proportional representation systems for legislative elections, instant runoff voting for executive and judicial elections and public interest redistricting.
- Tideman's method Pairwise single-winner election method. This site has an explanation of the Tideman's method, along with a comprehensive comparison of methods.
- Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems.
- Politicians and Polytopes mailing list Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV & FPTP.
- Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting" Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster
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