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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:

Electorama! - a weblog regarding voting and voting reform
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.

Discussion groups

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
Condorcet Internet Voting Service
- Supports Minimax, Schulze/Beatpath/CSSD, Ranked Pairs, MAM, Condorcet-IRV
- Allows equal ranking and "No opinion" votes
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:
  - An Approval election using the Checkboxes widget (with tallies calculated automatically)
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
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?)

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

Election data

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 **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:
+***[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1XqEoltkbrbc97OITVjmiKZA_okJ5BQPy998PTVT21lGJCA/viewform?usp=sf_link An Approval election using the Checkboxes widget] (with [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1XqEoltkbrbc97OITVjmiKZA_okJ5BQPy998PTVT21lGJCA/viewanalytics tallies calculated automatically])
 *[https://quick.mobpoll.org/ MobPoll]
 **Supports [[Approval voting]]