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. |
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 re |
Citizens for Approval Voting «
http://www.approvalvoting.com/ | | A nonprofit political organization advocating the approval voting system of elections. |
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. |
Condorcet. org «
http://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. |
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) |
Election Selection: Science News Online «
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20021102/bob8.asp | | Article criticizing plurality , and discussing borda voting , instant runoff voting , and approval voting as alternatives. |
Elections - or, cheering for the State «
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/elections/main.html | | Site which advocates anarcho-capitalism (anarchy combined with free market capitalism) with pointers to editorials. |
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. |
Electorama «
http://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. |
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. |
