Elections: Voting systems

Updated Apr 2021
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First Past the Post aka plurality voting, relative majority and Single-Member District Plurality or SMDP.

Just How Unfair Can Plurality Elections Be? (the Cube Rule)

Making democracy constitutional Elections - Canada

Alice Doesn't Vote Here Anymore

The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained CGP Grey

Proportional Representation

Californians for Electoral ReformSupports AV as well as PR

Proportional Representation Society of Australia

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION 101

How Proportional Representation Elections Work From the US organization fairvote.org

Razmjerni Sustavi (An artical I wrote in Serbo-Croat)

What Would Proportional Representation look like in the United States? By Amy Rosenbluth, Max Clark On Apr 2, 2021
List Proportional Representation

Why List Proportional Representation.

South African Elections Show the Way Toward Racial Fairness

Candidate Selection and List PR by Mike Ossipoff

Allocation Formulas for Party List PR by Mike Ossipoff. This is also relevant to the allocation of House Representatives between States in the US

District systems for PR by Mike Ossipoff

Systematic Procedures for PR Allocation Formulas (Sainte-Lague & d'Hondt)by Mike Ossipoff

Sainte-Lague's exchange property by Mike Ossipoff

Hill's method - An Unsuccessful Attempt to Improve on Webster/Sainte-Lague: by Mike Ossipoff

Single Transferable Vote

A simple method of implementing Single Transferable Vote by Mike Ossipoff

Rules for implementing Single Transferable Vote (fractional method) by Mike Ossipoff
The Single Transferable Vote in Aiberta and Manitoba University of Alberta
Proportional Representation Society of Australia
Fair Representation Act Report from Fair Vote (United States)
Proportion Representation in New York City, 1936-1947
ACCURATE DEMOCRACY A synthesis of STV and Condorcet ie STV weighted to the centre
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Other Multi member systems
Rich Tradition of Minority Party Representation Continues in Pennsylvania and Connecticut
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Single-Winner Methods
Ossipoff's origional single winner article
Ossipoff's Standards & Criteria for Evaluating & Comparing Multi-Alternative Single-Winner Social Choice Methods
Approval Voting Home Page
Why Approval Voting is Unworkable in Contested Elections
Michael Ossipoff Discusses Approval Voting
What is Ranked Choice Voting? (Californians for Electoral Reform)

Condorcet PHP A library for implementing Condorcet using php.

A python script tie breaker of Condorcet
Voting Rights
Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, Is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights Ari Berman
Johnson’s voter ID checks are not about electoral fraud, they’re about power
Voter Suppression TacticsJoseff Rich Justice Department 1988-2005
Justice Dept's Switch from Voter Protection to Voter SuppressionContiuation of the Joseff Rich interview.
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