Directory of Voting Systems Resources

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Subcategories

• Direct Democracy
• Electronic Voting Systems
• Instant Runoff
• Proportional Representation
• Single Transferable Vote
• U.S. Electoral College

Resources in This Category

• Accurate Democracy

  http://accuratedemocracy.com/
  Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included.

• Approval Voting

  http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/center.html
  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.

• Approval Voting

  http://www.tursiops.cc/idhop/av/
  Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.

• Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project

  http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
  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.

• Condorcet's Method

  http://robla.net/1996/politics/condorcet.html
  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.

• Declared-Strategy Voting

  http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/diss/
  Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election)

• Elections, Electoral Methods and Electoral Law

  http://www.wahlrecht.de/english.htm
  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.

• Elections: Results and Voting systems

  http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/vote.html
  Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.

• Electoral Reform Society

  http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/
  Campaigns for proportional representation and the Single Transferable Vote system in parliaments, assemblies and councils. Based in the UK, but information is applicable to other countries and to non-governmental bodies.

• Electorama

  http://www.electorama.com/
  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.

• FairVote.org: The Center for Voting and Democracy

  http://www.fairvote.org/
  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.

• How Democracy Works

  http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis_democracy/hillis_index.html
  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.

• International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)

  http://www.ifes.org/
  A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.

• May the Best Man Lose

  http://discovermagazine.com/2000/nov/featbestman/
  Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams.

• Politicians and Polytopes mailing list

  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/politicians-and-polytopes/
  Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV and FPTP.

• PR-Squared

  http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/electsys.html
  A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation.

• The De Borda Institute

  http://www.deborda.org/
  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.

• The Immigrant Voting Project

  http://ronhayduk.com/immigrant-voting/
  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.

• Voting System Simulations

  http://bolson.org/voting/
  Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful

• Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting"

  http://whyfiles.org/shorties/068voting/index.html
  Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster

• Wikipedia: Voting System

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
  Offer a comprehensive description of various voting systems including methods, criteria and history.

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