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This page has a series of links to websites and discussion groups about election methods


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== Websites ==
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There are many web pages out there about voting, election methods, the theory behind them, their practical uses, etc. This is a compilation of some of them:


This page has a series of links to websites and discussion groups about election methods
*[[W:Electoral system|Wikipedia has an extensive voting systems section]], which some of this site is based on.
* [http://www.aceproject.org/main/english/es/es.htm Administration and Costs of Elections Project documents on electoral systems]
* [http://accuratedemocracy.com/voting_systems.htm Voting Tasks and Voting Systems @AccurateDemocracy] by Rob Loring
* [http://dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Campaigns_and_Elections/Voting_Systems/ ODP category on voting systems]
* [http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/sing.html defensive strategy criteria page] by Mike Ossipoff
* [http://www.braindoll.net/vote Preferential Voting FAQ] (see glossary at the end)
* [http://www.emocracia.no.sapo.pt Emocracy] Emocratic Elections Investigation
* [http://www.voteroll.com VoteRoll] Voting statistics for people voting online.
* [http://fc.antioch.edu/~jarmyta@antioch-college.edu/voting.htm Voting methods page] by James Green-Armytage
*Rob LeGrand's [https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~legrand/rbvote/ ranked ballot voting methods] page describes and evaluates several ranked ballot methods, including a very wide variety of Condorcet completion methods.
*[http://rangevoting.org RangeVoting.org] has a lot of information both about range voting and about other voting methods.
*[http://www.electorama.com Electorama!] - original web domain for Electowiki, and host for the [[EM list]]. From 2003-2005, it was a multi-user blog (see [https://web.archive.org/web/20050828103911/http://electorama.com/ 2005 snapshot of Electorama!])


==Election data==
== Discussion groups ==
:''main article: "'''[[Election data]]'''"''


See [[election data]] for links to voting data (machine readable and human readable).
:''main: [[:Category:Forum]]''


{{anchor|Discussion groups}}
*[[Election-methods mailing list]] - Email list to discuss strengths and weaknesses of many electoral systems.
== Forums ==
*[[EndFPTP]] - subreddit discussing all proposals to replace [[FPTP]] voting (direct link: [https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/ reddit.com/r/EndFPTP])
:''main article "'''[[Forum]]'''"''
*[https://forum.electionscience.org/ The Center for Election Science forum]

**(Previously [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/electionscience The Center for Election Science Google Group])
A "forum" is a place for discussing matters. On [[electowiki]], this usually refers to forums in "[[:Category:Forums]]". We like linking to public, persistent forums so that the historical record of discussions is captured for later reference. See "[[Forum]]" for links to other forums.
*[https://www.kialo.com/the-us-should-adopt-a-better-voting-system-for-single-winner-elections-4650/4650.0 Kialo debate: The US should adopt a better voting system (for single-winner elections)]
*[https://www.kialo.com/the-us-should-adopt-a-better-voting-system-for-elected-bodies-5589/5589.0 Kialo debate: The US should adopt a better voting system (for elected bodies)]


==Polling sites==
==Polling sites==
:''main article: "'''[[Online polling]]'''"''
This is a list of web apps, phone apps, and the like that allow you to conduct polls under various (non-FPTP) voting systems:


The "'''[[online poll]]'''" page has a list of web apps, phone apps, and the like that allow you to conduct polls under various (non-FPTP) voting systems.
*[https://star.vote/ ★.vote]
**Supports [[STAR voting]]
**STAR allows equal ratings and treats "No opinion" as a 0
*[https://betterpolls.com/ BetterPolls]
**Matrix Style Score Voting
**Made by https://bolson.org/
*[http://www.better-vote.com/ BetterVote]
**Approval + Ranking
*[https://github.com/electionscience/Booth Booth]
**Supported by the Center for Election Science
**Work in progress, no hosted site, started 08-2019
*[https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/ Condorcet Internet Voting Service]
**Supports [[Minimax]], [[Schulze method|Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD]], [[Ranked Pairs]], [[Maximize Affirmed Majorities|MAM]], [[Condorcet-IRV]]
**Allows equal ranking and "No opinion" votes
*[https://www.debordavote.org/ deBordaVote.org]
** Supports [[Borda count]]
*[https://doodle.com/ Doodle]
**Supports Approval Voting
*[https://electionbuddy.com/ Election Buddy]
**Supports [[First Past the Post electoral system|FPTP]], [[Cumulative voting|Cumulative]], [[Instant-runoff voting|IRV]], [[Single transferable vote|STV]], [[Score voting|Score]], and [[Approval voting|Approval]]
** Up to 20 voters free, increasing cost for more voters
*[https://docs.google.com/forms Google Forms]
**Not specifically for voting, but can be used to host elections using:
***[[Approval voting|Approval]], [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1XqEoltkbrbc97OITVjmiKZA_okJ5BQPy998PTVT21lGJCA/viewform?usp=sf_link using the Checkboxes widget] (with [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1XqEoltkbrbc97OITVjmiKZA_okJ5BQPy998PTVT21lGJCA/viewanalytics tallies calculated automatically])
***[[Score voting|Score]], [[W:Combined approval voting|CAV]] or [[S/(S+O)]], [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBvb0Om6QCPEdXmBb2p6n9n1HhTE7zFyVaIAE7zpuzleMbaQ/viewform using the Linear scale or Multiple choice grid] (with [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBvb0Om6QCPEdXmBb2p6n9n1HhTE7zFyVaIAE7zpuzleMbaQ/viewanalytics score breakdowns calculated automatically], and [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vT8j7b0bcYyYUJakTiY-e7Nr7KondeLWfOvxhxjoJlWu5qn73QtOmtjfUcNNX1wTUEgbgrGX5eqeAGH/pubhtml total tallies calculated in Google Sheets])
***[[STAR voting|STAR]], [https://www.equal.vote/star_election_calculator using this script]
*[https://quick.mobpoll.org/ MobPoll]
**Supports [[Approval voting]]
*[https://modernballots.com/ Modern Ballots]
** Supports [[Schulze method|Schulze]] with equal rankings
**Finds single or multiple winners
*[https://www.opavote.com/ OpaVote]
**Supports [[First Past the Post electoral system|FPTP]], [[Instant-runoff voting|IRV]] variants, [[Single transferable vote|STV]] variants, [[Approval voting|Approval]], [[Borda count|Borda]], [[Bucklin voting|Bucklin]], [[Coombs' method|Coombs]], [[Condorcet methods|Condorcet variants]]
**Free for 25 voters and 10 candidates, increasing cost by number of voters and candidates
*[https://www.pollaborate.com/ Pollaborate]
**Supports [[Instant-runoff voting|IRV]], [[Borda count]]
**Does not allow equal rankings or "No opinion" votes
*[https://rcv-app.firebaseapp.com/ RankIt]
**Supports [[Instant-runoff voting|IRV]]
*https://vote.electionscience.org
**Supports Approval
*[https://voteupapp.com/ VoteUp]
**Supports [[range voting]] on a continuous scale
**Phone app
*[https://whale.imag.fr/ Whale]
**Supports [[Range voting|range]], [[Approval voting|approval]], ranking with and without ties
*[https://youpoll.me/ YouPoll]
**Supports [[First Past the Post electoral system|FPTP]], [[Approval voting|Approval]], [[Range voting|Range]]/Score (variable number of levels), [[Borda count]] ("Ranked"), Probability voting (equivalent to [[cumulative voting]]?)


== Software==
== Software==
:''main article: "'''[[Software]]'''"''

Software for calculation, analysis, simulation, etc. of voting methods and elections
Software for calculation, analysis, simulation, etc. of voting methods and elections


See '''[[Software]]''' for more links.
=== Online election calculators===
These sites calculate the winner from a listing of ballots:


== Websites ==
*[https://pivot.vote/open/try Pivot]
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*[https://www.condorcet.vote Condorcet.Vote]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050407202015/http://www.eskimo.com:80/~robla/politics/condorcet-front.html Pairwise Methods Demonstration]
**which inspired [http://www.cs.angelo.edu/~rlegrand/rbvote/calc.html Ranked-ballot voting calculator]
***which inspired [http://www.ericgorr.net/condorcet/ Eric Gorr’s Condorcet Matrix]
*https://rangevoting.org/VoteCalc.html


The "[[Websites]]" page has many web pages out there about voting, election methods, the theory behind them, their practical uses, etc.
=== Simulation ===


[[Category:External links|*]]
* [https://rangevoting.org/IEVS/IEVS.c IEVS: Infinitely extendible voting system comparison engine] (C, non-commercial use only)
[[Category:Voting software]]
* [http://zesty.ca/voting/voteline/ Voteline]1D simulator for FPTP, Approval, Borda, Condorcet, and IRV (Flash, online)
[[Category:Websites]]

=== Unsorted ===
* https://github.com/brianolson/redistricter open source impartial algorithmic redistricting
* https://github.com/brianolson/voteutil Count votes with a variety of algorithms in a variety of languages
* https://bitbucket.org/bodhisnarkva/voteutil Implementations of election methods with which to count votes and reach decisions: Virtual Round Robin (Condorcet's Method), Instant Runoff Vote, Instant Runoff Normalized Ratings. Also a Histogram class with the same interface.
* https://github.com/brianolson/election_simulator Simulate elections to test election algorithms
* https://github.com/electionscience/vse-sim Methods for running simulations to calculate Voter Satisfaction Efficiency (VSE) of various voting systems in various conditions.
* http://bolson.org/voting/sim_one_seat/dist/
* http://voteutil.googlecode.com/svn/sim_one_seat [dead link]
* https://github.com/msmunter/star.vote Star.vote Website https://star.vote

==Election data==

*[https://rangevoting.org/TidemanData.html An Election Collection (June 2009: now includes over 100 elections!)]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20090120134212/http://stv.sourceforge.net/stvdb OpenSTV database of ranked elections]
*https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/results/results18.html#Nov6

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Latest revision as of 03:40, 12 May 2022

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This page has a series of links to websites and discussion groups about election methods

Election data

main article: "Election data"

See election data for links to voting data (machine readable and human readable).

Forums

main article "Forum"

A "forum" is a place for discussing matters. On electowiki, this usually refers to forums in "Category:Forums". We like linking to public, persistent forums so that the historical record of discussions is captured for later reference. See "Forum" for links to other forums.

Polling sites

main article: "Online polling"

The "online poll" page has a list of web apps, phone apps, and the like that allow you to conduct polls under various (non-FPTP) voting systems.

Software

main article: "Software"

Software for calculation, analysis, simulation, etc. of voting methods and elections

See Software for more links.

Websites

main article: "Websites"

The "Websites" page has many web pages out there about voting, election methods, the theory behind them, their practical uses, etc.

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