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On the Web
- Wikipedia: Voting System Definition - Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone to make additions or corrections.
- Elections: Results and Voting systems - Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.
- Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project - Project set up to evaluate the current state and reliability of U.S. voting systems, and to propose specific uniform requirements and guidelines for U.S. voting systems. Formed in December 2000 in response to the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.
- stv-voting mailing list - List for discussing the Single Transferable Vote voting system
- Center for Voting and Democracy - Organization that researches how voting systems affect participation, representation and governance. Advocates proportional representation systems for legislative elections, instant runoff voting for executive and judicial elections and public interest redistricting.
- USA Today: Updating voting machines could take a decade - Discussion of the possible problems upgrading voting systems throughout the U.S. as demand might exceed supply. Includes charts of what methods are currently used in which counties in the U.S.
- Fair Vote Canada - The primary purpose of Fair Vote Canada is to gain broad support for a national process to enable Canadian voters to choose which voting system shall be used to elect their representatives.
- Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting" - Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster
- Approval Voting - A voting procedure in which voters can vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they wish. Each candidate approved of receives one vote, and the candidate with the most votes wins.
- Single Transferable Vote Software - Open source software for implementing instant runoff voting and the single transferable vote.
Wikipedia Articles
- Effects of different voting systems under similar circumstances - This article describes an example election using geographical proximity to create hypothetical preferences of a group of voters, and then compares the results of such preferences with ten different voting systems. It does not, however, address any of the voting systems that are based on proportional representation.
- Single-winner voting systems - Single-winner voting systems are voting systems in which a predetermined constituency elects a single person to some office; they contrast generally with proportional representation, in which constituencies are combined to elect several representatives at once.
- Sequoia Voting Systems - Sequoia Voting Systems is a company based in California, and one of the largest providers of electronic voting systems in the US. Some of its main competitors are Diebold Election Systems and Election Systems
- End-to-end auditable voting systems - End-to-end auditable (E2E) systems are a form of Independent Verification. E2E systems usually use cryptography to store copies of voted ballots.
- Independent Testing Authority - An Independent Testing Authority (ITA) is a laboratory certified by the United States-based National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) to test voting systems to the Voting System Standards (VSS) or the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) in the process of certifying voting systems. The Election Assistance Commission has taken over the responsibility for accrediting such laboratories and now uses the National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Voluntary Laboratory ...