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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. |
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International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) - http://www.ifes.org/
A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies. |
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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 redistricting. |
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Administration and Cost of Elections (ACE) Electronic Publication - http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/default.htm
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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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) |
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Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting" - http://whyfiles.org/shorties/068voting/index.html
Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster |
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Election Methods Website - http://electionmethods.org
Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods. |
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Election Selection: Science News Online - http://www.sciencenews.org/20021102/bob8.asp
Article criticizing plurality, and discussing Borda Voting, Instant Runoff Voting, and Approval Voting as alternatives. |
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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. |
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Condorcet's Method - http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Citizens for Approval Voting - http://www.approvalvoting.com/
A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections. |
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PR-Squared - http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/electsys.html
A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation. |
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Wikipedia: Voting System Definition - http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone to make additions or corrections. |
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May the Best Man Lose - http://www.discover.com/nov_00/gthere.html?article=featbestman.html
Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams. |
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The De Borda Institute - http://www.deborda.com/
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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Accurate Democracy - http://accuratedemocracy.com
Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included. |
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Making Sense out of Consensus - http://www.siam.org/siamnews/10-00/consensus.htm
SIAM News article about Borda, Condorcet, and Approval voting which uses the Jesse Ventura victory in Minnesota as primary example. |