| Directory > Society > Politics > Campaigns and Elections > Voting Systems 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.
http://www.ballotpaper.org/
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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.
http://www.wahlrecht.de/english.htm
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Voting System Simulations
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
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
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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Wikipedia: Voting System Definition
Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone
to make additions or corrections.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
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Approval Voting
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
A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections.
http://www.approvalvoting.com/
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Election Selection: Science News Online
Article criticizing plurality, and discussing Borda Voting, Instant Runoff Voting, and Approval
Voting as alternatives.
http://www.sciencenews.org/20021102/bob8.asp
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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.
http://www.ifes.org/
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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.
http://condorcet.org/
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Accurate Democracy
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
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
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"
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
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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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
http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/default.htm
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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.
http://www.vote.caltech.edu/
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Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic
Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=b&id=2444992&cf=0&clink=dmetf
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How the Net can transform voting
MSNBC article comparing Borda to Approval voting. Goes into the history of Approval voting.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/486207.asp
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Politicians and Polytopes mailing list
Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of
STV & FPTP.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/politicians-and-polytopes
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The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up
Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods
http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i10/10a01801.htm
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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.
http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/condorcet.html
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Approval Voting
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.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/center.html
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May the Best Man Lose
Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald
Saari and Steven Brams.
http://www.discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article=featbestman.html
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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 redistricting.
http://www.fairvote.org
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Election Methods Website
Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet
methods.
http://electionmethods.org
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PR-Squared
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
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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