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::: I wasn't straw manning you; IIRC, EVC prefers "voting" over "electoral", so I was saying they should be able to write "voting method" rather than "electoral method" in something like the STAR voting article. I don't have enough information to judge whether electoral or voting is a better term, so I leave that to you. I'd just mention that in my limited experience, I've seen more uses of "voting" than "electoral", most likely owing to simplicity. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]])
I mean that "voting" and "electoral" are synonyms, as are "method" and "system".
* [[wikt:voting]]: action of the verb to vote
* [[wikt:electoral]]: Of, or relating to elections.
* [[wikt:system]]: A method or way of organizing or planning.
* [[wikt:method]]: A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something
Wiktionary literally lists [[wikt:electoral system]] as a synonym of "voting system". I'm not seeing a compelling reason to prefer one over another. I looked through a few different sources to see what terms different authors use:
* Gibbard:
** "voting scheme"
** "system of voting"
* McLean
** "electoral system"
** "voting system"
** "electoral rule"
* Nanson
** "method of election"
*Baldwin
** "method of voting"
*Hogben
** "system of voting"
*Schulze
** "election method"
*Emerson M.S. Niou
** "voting rule"
*Emerson, Peter
** "voting system"
** "electoral system"
*Riker
** "voting method"
** "method of voting"
** "voting system"
* FairVote
** "voting system"
** "voting method"
* Britannica
** "electoral system"
* Electoral Reform Society
** "voting system"
** "electoral system"
''"but do you think the people who argued for the "Voting system" to "Electoral system" on English Wikipedia were wrong?"''
: Can you summarize their arguments? They had multiple long discussions about it, but did Wikipedia just defer to the first name of the article because the discussion was going nowhere?
Remember [[w:Fredkin's paradox|Fredkin's paradox]]... — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 01:55, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
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