Accurate Democracy
Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included.
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.
Voting System Simulations
Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful
The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up
Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods
Condorcet.org
Information on voting methods, centering around the "Ranked Pairs" 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.
Election Methods Website
Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods.
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.
Wikipedia: Voting System Definition
Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone to make additions or corrections.
Politicians and Polytopes mailing list
Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV & FPTP.
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)
New York Times Opinion: Making Votes Count
Archive of editorials on issues in the mechanics of US democracy, including the reliability of electronic voting machines, obstacles to voter registration, the Electoral College, and other topics.
Condorcet's Method
A pairwise election system where ranked ballots are used to simulate many head-to-head elections, where the winner is the candidate who wins all pairings.
Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic
Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems.
Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting"
Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster
Administration and Cost of Elections (ACE) Electronic Publication
Contains comprehensive information on all aspects of organising elections. Includes detailed information on voting systems, particularly pointing out the current distribution of voting systems in national elections throughout the world
Elections - or, cheering for the State
Site which advocates Anarcho-Capitalism (anarchy combined with free market capitalism) with pointers to editorials.
Citizens for Approval Voting
A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections.
Elections: Results and Voting systems
Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.
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.
May the Best Man Lose
Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams.
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.
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.
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.
The Immigrant Voting Project
Promotes discussion of immigrant voting rights (also known as resident voting, alien suffrage, and non-citizen voting) as a sensible policy to strengthen democracy by encouraging citizenship, community building, and government accountability.
PR-Squared
A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation.
A New Monotonic and Clone-Independent Single-Winner Election Method
Markus Schulze writes about Condorcet methods. Includes detailed explanation of the Condorcet method ("cloneproof Schwartz sequential dropping", "beatpath method", "Schulze method") which is used e.g. by DEBIAN and SPI. Published in Voting Matters, October 2003.
Election Selection: Science News Online
Article criticizing plurality, and discussing borda voting, instant runoff voting, and approval voting as alternatives.
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.
Approval Voting
Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.
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.
Elections, Electoral Methods and Electoral Law
Describes the voting system for German Federal elections, with discussion, statistics, and links related to unusual characteristics such as with overhang seats and negative weighting of votes.
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