Voting systems

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List of Systems

• approval voting [W]
• instant runoff voting [W] (IRV) aka "ranked choice"
• plurality voting [W] aka "first past the post" (FPP), "winner-take-all"
• range voting [W]
• STAR voting [W]: "Score Then Automatic Runoff"
• single transferable vote [W]

Related Pages

• virtual voting districts
• InstaGov: a voting-related project on Issuepedia (old page, needs updating)

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia
  • Arrow's impossibility theorem relates to the theory of voting systems

Collections & Discussion

• ElectionMethods.org (dead site; archived)
• ElectoRama! wiki
• Voting Simulation Visualizations by Ka-Ping Yee (posted 2005-04-21, updated 2006-07-31)

Articles

• 2016-12: To Build a Better Ballot "an interactive guide to alternative voting systems"
• 1996: Declared-Strategy Voting: An Instrument for Group Decision-Making by Lorrie Faith Cranor
  • Voting Systems Overview
    • Vote Aggregation Methods does not seem to mention range voting, although the author essentially uses range voting to assess voter preferences in the 1992 case study: "The respondents were asked to rate each of the main candidates in the US Presidential race on a "feeling thermometer" scale that ranged from 0 to 100 -- the higher the number, the more favorable the respondent's feeling toward that candidate." The case for DSV seems based on the idea that voters will always adjust their vote based on how they think other people will vote -- but with range voting, such adjustment is either unnecessary or greatly reduced. So how is DSV superior to range voting?

Video

• 2020-11-01 Simulating alternate voting systems: simulates FPP, IRV, approval
  • mentions range voting as a more general form of approval voting, but does not simulate
• 2011-04-17 The Alternative Vote Explained (CGP Grey): IRV
• 2011-03-19 The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained
  • only partly-related discussion here