Voting systems

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Reference

• Particular Systems
  • range voting
  • Single Transferable Vote
• Collections & Discussion
  • ElectionMethods.org
  • ElectoRama! wiki
  • Voting Simulation Visualizations by Ka-Ping Yee (posted 2005-04-21, updated 2006-07-31)

Related Pages

• virtual voting districts
• InstaGov: a voting-related project on Issuepedia

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Reference

• Wikipedia

Articles

• 1996: Declared-Strategy Voting: An Instrument for Group Decision-Making by Lorrie Faith Cranor
  • Voting Systems Overview
    • Vote Aggregation Methods
• 1996-11: Math Against Tyranny: by Will Hively: " When you cast your vote this month, you're not directly electing the president – you're electing members of the electoral college. They elect the president. An archaic, unnecessary system? Mathematics shows, says one concerned American, that by giving your vote to another, you're ensuring the future of our democracy." Note, however, that in the United States this only applies to the Presidency.
  • "James Madison, chief architect of our nation's electoral college, wanted to protect each citizen against the most insidious tyranny that arises in democracies: the massed power of fellow citizens banded together in a dominant bloc. As Madison explained in The Federalist Papers (Number X), "a well-constructed Union" must, above all else, "break and control the violence of faction," especially "the superior force of an . . . overbearing majority." In any democracy, a majority's power threatens minorities. It threatens their rights, their property, and sometimes their lives." It's clear that Madison was against direct democracy, but his argument doesn't really make sense. How does the Electoral College (or representative democracy in general) make factionalism any less likely?