Pretty good
Science News article
on voting systems by Erica Klarreich
(week of 2 Nov. 2002; Vol. 162, 18 p.280; online version includes comments by readers;
local copy)
and our response.
Science News article
on voting systems by Phil McKenna (12 April 2008) which came out to be quite a mess,
and our long response trying to clean up the mess.
Another Science News foul-up
on voting systems, this one by Julie Rehmeyer 12 March 2008, with our corrections
and a link to the original piece.
Our critique
of Scientific American article
"Fairest Vote of All" by Dasgupta and Maskin
(March 2004, pp.92-97).
Our refutation
of numerous errors/lie/distortions in New York Times op-ed
"How to Move Beyond the Two-Party System" by Howard Dean
(7 Oct. 2016).
Point by point analysis
of errors and false claims made in a proposal for IRV voting for Denver.
An essay advocating Denver instead adopt range voting.
The influential Vermont Instant Runoff Voting report
"As easy as 1-2-3" together with our corrections of
some of its false and/or misleading claims.
Official pamphlet (pdf)
given to San Francisco voters for referendum
to enact Instant Runoff Voting (passed, 5 March 2002, by 55-45 margin).
The IRV refendum wording is on page 37 and is 1 sentence long, and
that sentence contains a lie. There is also a long
disussion of pro and con arguments about it pages 37-45, plus official legal wording on
page 46.
NC court of appeals election 2010
apparently the only statewide election ever held in USA using an instant runoff process.
It appears to have been a failure of democracy.
BBC study: what would have happened in Britain with IRV?
Historical retrospective
based on BBC poll data indicates that IRV usually would have wrongly
made the LibDems finish 3rd whereas they should have been 2nd... plurality system
UK actually used yielded even stronger distortion.
NAACP 2012 report on voter suppression
nationwide legislative campaign.
The
voting test
that was used in the state of Georgia to disenfranchise blacks, until the
federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 put an end to it. (Supplied by Georgia Tech professor
John J. Bartholdi III,
who says one had to achieve a perfect score to register to vote.) Could you pass?
Here are the alleged
answers.
Professional poll of 1202 random Australian adults
finding
that they prefer plain-plurality voting versus the preferential (instant runoff)
system they presently use (if forced to choose one) – i.e. they'd like to abandon IRV
– the poll result was 57% to 37% (with 5% don't know/refuse).
D-dimensional orderings solution of
a fundamental mathematical problem in political science.
Open letter to CfER.org
urging them to support range voting, not instant runoff.
Open letter to
Roger Ailes, president of Fox News,
re how eligibility for 2015 Republican primary debates should be decided with the aid
of approval and score style polling, not plurality.
The GOP war on votingRolling Stone Magazine expose of Republican party attempts to stop voting,
by Ari Berman.
Monetized score voting is my name for
an idea advanced in atrocious work by several economists
(2012-2013) and improved/corrected/examined by me.
The idea is by paying to cast your score voting ballot according to
certain carefully designed price formulas, you will become inspired by the
profit motive to vote honestly. Unfortunately this disregards some massive
real world problems, but perhaps might be ok in some corporate votes and also
(if the whole max-profit-motive-theorem is abandoned instead merely
seeking to discourage exaggeration in range voting)
as modified by us even perhaps in governmental ones.
Range Voting Election held in combined 3 kindergarten classes
at Lowell School (Maryland)
by Alan Sherman, 29 April 2010, on question "what is your favorite pet"?
[Also discussed was "scantegrity II" fraud-proof voting techniques, in all it took 30 minutes.]
