Voting links

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

• Reddit /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
• 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 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
• 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

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