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EqualVote.org |
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| World-wide comparisons and research
on election systems and how they affect politics. What kinds of elections
best represent choices by voters and guarantee to all an equal opportunity
to affect the results and to participate in governing. |
For how our elections in the USA can be representative, not manipulated and distorted as they now are, please go to EqualVote.us. For what promotes co-operation and balance world-wide, please go to the site ConsensusDemocracy.org. For what we can do to promote co-operation and balance in the USA, please see ConsensusDemocracy.us. For Equal Protection of the Laws, its massive denial and how we can use it to improve matters, please go to EqualProtection.us. |
What are available now are tables comparing various election systems, their advantages and disadvantages. As pointed out in numerous analyses recently, the vote counting formulas used in the USA are practically the worst possible (except that our primaries before general elections correct for a few of the worst problems). There is an enormous amount of research on the degree of representativeness of legislatures as a consequence of the kinds of elections used, and some on consequences for laws and policies and political peace. Some of that will be reported here. Stay tuned. Among other things, Proportional Representation democracies, the overwhelming majority throughout Europe, are just as "stable" as Largest-Minority-Takes-All democracies, perhaps even the more so. PR democracies have less wild swings of policy, have government philosophies closer to that of their citizens, etc. etc. |
| Instant Runoff Voting and alternatives | For careful comparisons of Instant Runoff Voting, Condorcet, Borda Count, Range Voting, Approval Voting, please click here. Text discussion and examples together with a new table, an alternative to the next. |
| Single-member districts | For how voting methods work in single-member districts, click here. |
Multi-member districts |
For how voting methods work in multi-member districts, click here. |
| Strengthening the political center; honoring voter preferences | For how honoring second-place and third-place preferences of voters can strengthen centrist candidates and pull political parties towards the political center, click here. |
| Prohibited voting in at-large districts | For voting in at-large districts (multiple candidates elected, each voter has as many votes as positions to be filled), click here. This kind of voting has been abolished nearly everywhere in the democratic world, since it makes a mockery of the very idea of representation or a legislature in which policies are negotiated among a variety of views. It allows the largest minority group among the voters to elect 100 percent of the representatives and to exclude everyone else. For information on these, click here. |
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