Voting links

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

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:

• Wikipedia has an extensive voting systems section, which some of this site is based on.
• Administration and Costs of Elections Project documents on electoral systems
• Voting Tasks and Voting Systems @AccurateDemocracy by Rob Loring
• ODP category on voting systems
• defensive strategy criteria page by Mike Ossipoff
• Preferential Voting FAQ (see glossary at the end)
• Emocracy Emocratic Elections Investigation
• VoteRoll Voting statistics for people voting online.
• Voting methods page by James Green-Armytage
• Rob LeGrand's ranked ballot voting methods page describes and evaluates several ranked ballot methods, including a very wide variety of Condorcet completion methods.
• RangeVoting.org has a lot of information both about range voting and about other voting methods.
• Electorama! - original web domain for Electowiki, and host for the EM list. From 2003-2005, it was a multi-user blog (see 2005 snapshot of Electorama!)

Discussion groups

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• 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: reddit.com/r/EndFPTP)
• The Center for Election Science forum
  • (Previously The Center for Election Science Google Group)
• Kialo debate: The US should adopt a better voting system (for single-winner elections)
• Kialo debate: The US should adopt a better voting system (for elected bodies)

Polling sites

This is a list of web apps, phone apps, and the like that allow you to conduct polls under various (non-FPTP) voting systems:

• ★.vote
  • Supports STAR voting
  • STAR allows equal ratings and treats "No opinion" as a 0
• BetterPolls
  • Matrix Style Score Voting
  • Made by https://bolson.org/
• BetterVote
  • Approval + Ranking
• Booth
  • Supported by the Center for Election Science
  • Work in progress, no hosted site, started 08-2019
• Condorcet Internet Voting Service
  • Supports Minimax, Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD, Ranked Pairs, MAM, Condorcet-IRV
  • Allows equal ranking and "No opinion" votes
• deBordaVote.org
  • Supports Borda count
• 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.
• Doodle
  • Supports Approval Voting
• Election Buddy
  • Supports FPTP, Cumulative, IRV, STV, Score, and Approval
  • Up to 20 voters free, increasing cost for more voters
• Google Forms
  • Not specifically for voting, but can be used to host elections using:
    • Approval, using the Checkboxes widget (with tallies calculated automatically)
    • Score, CAV or S/(S+O), using the Linear scale or Multiple choice grid (with score breakdowns calculated automatically, and total tallies calculated in Google Sheets)
    • STAR, using this script
• MobPoll
  • Supports Approval voting
• Modern Ballots
  • Supports Schulze with equal rankings
  • Finds single or multiple winners
• OpaVote
  • Supports FPTP, IRV variants, STV variants, Approval, Borda, Bucklin, Coombs, Condorcet variants
  • Free for 25 voters and 10 candidates, increasing cost by number of voters and candidates
• Pollaborate
  • Supports IRV, Borda count
  • Does not allow equal rankings or "No opinion" votes

• RankIt
  • Supports IRV

• Vodle
  • Built around Maximal Partial Consensus

• vote.electionscience.org
  • Supports Approval

• VoteUp
  • Supports range voting on a continuous scale
  • Phone app

• Whale
  • Supports range, approval, ranking with and without ties

• YouPoll
  • Supports FPTP, Approval, 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

Online election calculators

see also: online poll

These sites calculate the winner from a listing of ballots:

• Pivot
• Condorcet.Vote
• Pairwise Methods Demonstration
  • which inspired Ranked-ballot voting calculator
    • which inspired Eric Gorr’s Condorcet Matrix
• https://rangevoting.org/VoteCalc.html
• DistributedVote

Simulation

• Quadelect: Draw Yee maps, calculate Bayesian regret, and determine election winners
• IEVS: Infinitely extendible voting system comparison engine (C, non-commercial use only)
• Voteline1D simulator for FPTP, Approval, Borda, Condorcet, and IRV (Flash, online)
• To Build a Better Ballot: Nicky Case's 2D explorable explanation of six voting methods.
• Smart Voting Simulator: 2D interactive guide to voting methods.
• Votekit: A rough draft of a 2D and 1D interactive simulator.
• Arrow’s Theorem: Visualizing 3-Candidate, 3-Voter Elections with Hexagons. Video. Github.

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

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