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Voting Systems (51)

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Elections: Results and Voting systems Open in a new browser window  
   Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.
   http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/vote.html
PR-Squared Open in a new browser window  
   A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation.
   http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/electsys.html
Election Methods Website Open in a new browser window  
   Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods.
   http://electionmethods.org
Center for Voting and Democracy Open in a new browser window  
   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 re
   http://www.fairvote.org
Condorcet's Method Open in a new browser window  
   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.
   http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/condorcet.html
The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up Open in a new browser window  
   Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods
   http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i10/10a01801.htm
Politicians and Polytopes mailing list Open in a new browser window  
   Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV & FPTP.
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/politicians-and-polytopes
Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic Open in a new browser window  
   Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems.
   http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=b&id=2444992&cf=0&clink=dmetf
Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project Open in a new browser window  
   Project set up to evaluate the current state and reliability of U.S. voting systems, and to propose specific uniform requirements and guidelines for U.S. voting systems. Formed in December 2000 in response to the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.
   http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
Making Sense out of Consensus Open in a new browser window  
   SIAM News article about Borda, Condorcet, and Approval voting which uses the Jesse Ventura victory in Minnesota as primary example.
   http://www.siam.org/siamnews/10-00/consensus.htm
Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting" Open in a new browser window  
   Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster
   http://whyfiles.org/shorties/068voting/index.html
How Democracy Works Open in a new browser window  
   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.
   http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis_democracy/hillis_index.html
Declared-Strategy Voting Open in a new browser window  
   Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election)
   http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/diss/
Accurate Democracy Open in a new browser window  
   Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included.
   http://accuratedemocracy.com
Condorcet.org Open in a new browser window  
   Information on voting methods, centering around the "Ranked Pairs" single-winner election method. This site has an explanation of the method, along with a comprehensive comparison of methods, and software for pairwise voting tabulation.
   http://condorcet.org/
International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) Open in a new browser window  
   A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.
   http://www.ifes.org/
Election Selection: Science News Online Open in a new browser window  
   Article criticizing plurality, and discussing borda voting, instant runoff voting, and approval voting as alternatives.
   http://www.sciencenews.org/20021102/bob8.asp
Citizens for Approval Voting Open in a new browser window  
   A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections.
   http://www.approvalvoting.com/
Approval Voting Open in a new browser window  
   Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.
   http://www.tursiops.cc/idhop/av/
Wikipedia: Voting System Definition Open in a new browser window  
   Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone to make additions or corrections.
   http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
Electorama Open in a new browser window  
   Home of the 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.
   http://electorama.com
The De Borda Institute Open in a new browser window  
   A Northern Ireland-based not-for-profit organisation which aims to promote the use of Borda voting and related voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice.
   http://www.deborda.org/
Voting System Simulations Open in a new browser window  
   Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful
   http://bolson.org/voting/
Elections, Electoral Methods and Electoral Law Open in a new browser window  
   Describes the voting system for German Federal elections, with discussion, statistics, and links related to unusual characteristics such as with overhang seats and negative weighting of votes.
   http://www.wahlrecht.de/english.htm
Ballotpaper.org Open in a new browser window  
   Argues against electronic voting and virtual elections, and in favor of paper ballots as a measure to prevent fraud and tyranny. Contains news links on a wide variety of issues.
   http://www.ballotpaper.org/
Administration and Cost of Elections (ACE) Electronic Publication Open in a new browser window  
   Contains comprehensive information on all aspects of organising elections. Includes detailed information on voting systems, particularly pointing out the current distribution of voting systems in national elections throughout the world
   http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/
May the Best Man Lose Open in a new browser window  
   Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams.
   http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-00/features/featbestman/
New York Times Opinion: Making Votes Count Open in a new browser window  
   Archive of editorials on issues in the mechanics of US democracy, including the reliability of electronic voting machines, obstacles to voter registration, the Electoral College, and other topics.
   http://nytimes.com/ref/opinion/making-votes-count.htm
Elections - or, cheering for the State Open in a new browser window  
   Site which advocates Anarcho-Capitalism (anarchy combined with free market capitalism) with pointers to editorials.
   http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/elections/main.html
The Immigrant Voting Project Open in a new browser window  
   Promotes discussion of immigrant voting rights (also known as resident voting, alien suffrage, and non-citizen voting) as a sensible policy to strengthen democracy by encouraging citizenship, community building, and government accountability.
   http://www.immigrantvoting.org
A New Monotonic and Clone-Independent Single-Winner Election Method Open in a new browser window  
   Markus Schulze writes about Condorcet methods. Includes detailed explanation of the Condorcet method ("cloneproof Schwartz sequential dropping", "beatpath method", "Schulze method") which is used e.g. by DEBIAN and SPI. Publ [PDF]
   http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/%7encj/comp303/schulze.pdf

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