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Politicians and Polytopes mailing list Open in a new windowLink Details
- Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV & FPTP.
- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/politicians-and-polytopes/

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Election Selection: Science News Online Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article criticizing plurality, and discussing borda voting, instant runoff voting, and approval voting as alternatives.
- http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20021102/bob8.asp

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Wikipedia: Voting System Definition Open in a new windowLink Details
- Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone to make additions or corrections.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system

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Condorcet's Method Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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://robla.net/1996/politics/condorcet.html

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The Immigrant Voting Project Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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New York Times Opinion: Making Votes Count Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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May the Best Man Lose Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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/

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Elections, Electoral Methods and Electoral Law Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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Voting System Simulations Open in a new windowLink Details
- Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful
- http://bolson.org/voting/

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The De Borda Institute Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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/

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Electorama Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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Approval Voting Open in a new windowLink Details
- Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.
- http://www.tursiops.cc/idhop/av/

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Citizens for Approval Voting Open in a new windowLink Details
- A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections.
- http://www.approvalvoting.com/

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International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) Open in a new windowLink Details
- A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.
- http://www.ifes.org/

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Condorcet.org Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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/

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Accurate Democracy Open in a new windowLink Details
- Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included.
- http://accuratedemocracy.com

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Declared-Strategy Voting Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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/

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How Democracy Works Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting" Open in a new windowLink Details
- Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster
- http://whyfiles.org/shorties/068voting/index.html

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Making Sense out of Consensus Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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/

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The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up Open in a new windowLink Details
- Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods
- http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i10/10a01801.htm

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Center for Voting and Democracy Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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PR-Squared Open in a new windowLink Details
- 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

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Elections: Results and Voting systems Open in a new windowLink Details
- Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.
- http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/vote.html

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