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    1.Elections: Results and Voting systems
     Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.
    www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk
    2.PR-Squared
      of proportional representation.
    www.jdawiseman.com
    3.Election Methods Website
     Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods.
    electionmethods.org
    4.Center for Voting and Democracy
     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.
    www.fairvote.org
    5.May the Best Man Lose
     Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams.
    www.discover.com
    6.Approval Voting
     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.
    bcn.boulder.co.us
    7.The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up
     Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods
    chronicle.com
    8.Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic
     Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems.
    shopping.yahoo.com
    9.Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project
     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.
    www.vote.caltech.edu
    10.Making Sense out of Consensus
     SIAM News article about Borda, Condorcet, and Approval voting which uses the Jesse Ventura victory in Minnesota as primary example.
    www.siam.org
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     Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster
    whyfiles.org
    12.How Democracy Works
     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.
    www.edge.org
    13.Declared-Strategy Voting
     Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election)
    lorrie.cranor.org
    14.Accurate Democracy
     Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included.
    accuratedemocracy.com
    15.Condorcet.org
      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.
    condorcet.org
    16.International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
     A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.
    www.ifes.org
    17.Citizens for Approval Voting
     A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections.
    www.approvalvoting.com
    18.Approval Voting
     Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.
    www.tursiops.cc
    19.Electorama
     Home of the Election-methods mailing list. Discussion of single-winner election reform, the relative merits of different proportional representation systems, and the technical underpinnings of all election methods.
    electorama.com
    20.The De Borda Institute
     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.
    www.deborda.org
    21.Voting System Simulations
     Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful
    bolson.org
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