  | | Accurate Democracy
| Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting. |
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| 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. |
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0.00 Hits: 16) | Rate It | | | | | |  | | 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. |
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| 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. |
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| A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election) |
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| Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| SIAM News article about Borda, Condorcet, and Approval voting which uses the Jesse Ventura victory in Minnesota as primary example. |
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| Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams. |
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| A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation. |
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| 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. |
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| Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful |
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