Voting links

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

Websites

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

main: Category:Forum

• 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
• 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
• https://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

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

Simulation

• IEVS: Infinitely extendible voting system comparison engine (C, non-commercial use only)
• Voteline1D simulator for FPTP, Approval, Borda, Condorcet, and IRV (Flash, online)

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]

Election data

• An Election Collection (June 2009: now includes over 100 elections!)
• OpenSTV database of ranked elections