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


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== Websites ==
:''main article: [[Websites]]''


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


==Election data==
*[[W:Electoral system|Wikipedia has an extensive voting systems section]], which some of this site is based on.
:''main article: "'''[[Election data]]'''"''
* [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.cs.angelo.edu/~rlegrand/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!])


See [[election data]] for links to voting data (machine readable and human readable).
== Discussion groups ==


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== 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.
*[[Election-methods mailing list]] - Email list to discuss strengths and weaknesses of many electoral systems.
*[[EndFPTP]] - subreddit discussing all proposals to replace [[FPTP]] voting (direct link: [https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/ reddit.com/r/EndFPTP])
*[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])
*[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]], [[Benham's method|Condorcet-IRV]]
**Allows equal ranking and "No opinion" votes
*[https://www.debordavote.org/ deBordaVote.org]
** Supports [[Borda count]]
*[http://distributedvote.altervista.org/home.html DistributedVote]
** Uses range [0,9]. Show results using various voting methods ([[Distributed Voting]], [[STAR]], [[IRV]], [[Score Voting]], [[AV]], [[FPTP]]).
** Votes can be exported in csv format. Essential interface, also for mobile.
*[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


== Software==
*[https://rcv-app.firebaseapp.com/ RankIt]
:''main article: "'''[[Software]]'''"''
**Supports [[Instant-runoff voting|IRV]]


*[http://www.vodle.it/ Vodle]
**Built around [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.06548.pdf Maximal Partial Consensus]

*[https://vote.electionscience.org 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 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===
:''see also: [[online poll]]''


== Websites ==
These sites calculate the winner from a listing of ballots:
:''main article: "'''[[Websites]]'''"''

*[https://pivot.vote/open/try Pivot]
*[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
*[http://distributedvote.altervista.org/proResult/home.html DistributedVote]

=== Simulation ===

* [https://github.com/kristomu/quadelect Quadelect]: Draw Yee maps, calculate Bayesian regret, and determine election winners
* [https://rangevoting.org/IEVS/IEVS.c IEVS: Infinitely extendible voting system comparison engine] (C, non-commercial use only)
* [http://zesty.ca/voting/voteline/ Voteline]1D simulator for FPTP, Approval, Borda, Condorcet, and IRV (Flash, online)

=== Unsorted ===
*https://github.com/simberaj/votelib Open source Python library for calculating results of many election systems ranging from mixed-member proportional to Bucklin voting and many Condorcet methods
*https://github.com/brianolson/redistricter open source impartial algorithmic redistricting
*https://metacpan.org/pod/Vote::Count Vote::Count a Perl Library supporting a large number of RCV and Range methods (IRV, Borda, Condorcet, MinMax).
* https://github.com/brianolson/voteutil Count votes with a variety of algorithms in a variety of languages (C, Python, Go, Java) 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.
* https://github.com/crflynn/voting Different apportionment methods implemented in Python
* https://github.com/vvk-ehk/ivxv Source of Estonia's online voting system.
* http://bolson.org/voting/sim_one_seat/dist/
* https://github.com/msmunter/star.vote Star.vote Website https://star.vote

==Election data==


The "[[Websites]]" page has many web pages out there about voting, election methods, the theory behind them, their practical uses, etc.
*[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
*https://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~denis/ Scottish Council STV Elections, with the results of both WIG and Meeks.


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Latest revision as of 03:40, 12 May 2022

parent: Contents

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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