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Politicians and Polytopes mailing list Politicians and Polytopes mailing list: Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV & FPTP. (Voting Systems) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/politicians-and-polytopes Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project: 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.vote.caltech.edu/ Elections: Results and Voting systems Elections: Results and Voting systems: Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms. (Voting Systems) http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/vote.html PR-Squared PR-Squared: A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation. (Voting Systems) http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/electsys.html Accurate Democracy Accurate Democracy: Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included. (Voting Systems) http://accuratedemocracy.com Elections, Electoral Methods and Electoral Law Elections, Electoral Methods and Electoral Law: 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.wahlrecht.de/english.htm Center for Voting and Democracy 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 re (Voting Systems) http://www.fairvote.org How Democracy Works 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis_democracy/hillis_index.html Wikipedia: Voting System Definition Wikipedia: Voting System Definition: Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone to make additions or corrections. (Voting Systems) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system Citizens for Approval Voting Citizens for Approval Voting: A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections. (Voting Systems) http://www.approvalvoting.com/ A New Monotonic and Clone-Independent Single-Winner Election Method A New Monotonic and Clone-Independent Single-Winner Election Method: 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 (Voting Systems)[PDF] http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/%7encj/comp303/schulze.pdf Electorama Electorama: 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. (Voting Systems) http://electorama.com The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up: Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods (Voting Systems) http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i10/10a01801.htm The De Borda Institute The De Borda Institute: 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.deborda.org/ Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic: Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems. (Voting Systems) http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=b&id=2444992&cf=0&clink=dmetf Administration and Cost of Elections (ACE) Electronic Publication Administration and Cost of Elections (ACE) Electronic Publication: 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 (Voting Systems) http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/ May the Best Man Lose May the Best Man Lose: Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams. (Voting Systems) http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-00/features/featbestman/ International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.ifes.org/ Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting" Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting": Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster (Voting Systems) http://whyfiles.org/shorties/068voting/index.html Approval Voting Approval Voting: Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting. (Voting Systems) http://www.tursiops.cc/idhop/av/ The Immigrant Voting Project The Immigrant Voting Project: 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 Systems) http://www.immigrantvoting.org Voting System Simulations Voting System Simulations: Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful (Voting Systems) http://bolson.org/voting/ Election Selection: Science News Online Election Selection: Science News Online: Article criticizing plurality, and discussing borda voting, instant runoff voting, and approval voting as alternatives. (Voting Systems) http://www.sciencenews.org/20021102/bob8.asp Condorcet's Method 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/condorcet.html Declared-Strategy 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) (Voting Systems) http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/diss/ Election Methods Website Election Methods Website: Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods. (Voting Systems) http://electionmethods.org Elections - or, cheering for the State Elections - or, cheering for the State: Site which advocates Anarcho-Capitalism (anarchy combined with free market capitalism) with pointers to editorials. (Voting Systems) http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/elections/main.html Condorcet.org Condorcet.org: 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. (Voting Systems) http://condorcet.org/ Making Sense out of Consensus 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.siam.org/siamnews/10-00/consensus.htm New York Times Opinion: Making Votes Count New York Times Opinion: Making Votes Count: 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. (Voting Systems) http://nytimes.com/ref/opinion/making-votes-count.htm Ballotpaper.org Ballotpaper.org: 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. (Voting Systems) http://www.ballotpaper.org/