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Voting Systems
Last modified: Oct 10th, 2024
Comparions
- Comparison of electoral systems on Wikipedia
- Tactical Voting Basics
- https://electionscience.org/education/approval-voting-vs-rcv
- https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSEbasic
Interactives
- To Build A Better Ballot by Nicky Case
- To Build an Even Better Ballot - Jameson Quinn tests some additional voting methods. Check out Nicky’s work first.
RCV/IRV is bad
Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff Voting has many flaws and unexpected results. See these links:
- https://rangevoting.org/TarrIrv.html
- https://rangevoting.org/NoIrv.html
- http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_squeeze
Approval Voting
Simple and easy to understand. No downsides compared to FPTP.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
- https://electionscience.org/
- https://rangevoting.org/Approval.html
- https://www.rangevoting.org/LNH.html
- Going from Theory to Practice: The Mixed Success of Approval Voting
- You’re already using the best voting system - my blog post on this
Complex
There are some more complex voting systems out there that are near-optimal scientifically.
Poll makers
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StrawPoll.vote - make free polls online with many different voting systems
- Approval voting is listed as “multiple choice”
- For ranked choice, you can look at different voting systems after votes have been cast which is cool