Two Properties for Categorizing Voting Systems
This article addresses what was previously a common practice in discussions of score voting systems. It was common practice to ignore the possibility of a voter failing to indicate a score for one of the candidates. Aside from the case of approval voting, how this is handled can affect an election outcome.
10/15/2019
Older Ranked-Choice Voting Systems
What used to be called IRV has recently come to be known as ranked-choice voting. But here are other voting systems that as them to rank the candidates in order, difficult and inaccurate as sometimes that is. So Borda voting, along with its infinitely many variations deserve to be called ranked voting as well (that word "choice" carries some surprising baggage). These older voting systems are discussed in this article.
12/16/2019
What Could be Wrong with Ranked-Choice Voting?
As the title suggests, this article lists numerous reasons to object to ranked-choice voting and incidentally, to prefer BAV instead. A later article (dated 2/22/2022) provides a more extensive treatment of this same topic, and even more recent articles (such as Spoiled Again and Another Ranked-Choice Spoiler) provide additional examples that would deserve to be included as well.
2/23/2021
Just Think about Runoff Voting
Using ranked-choice voting, you do not have to submit a complete list of candidates; you are free to leave some off. However, the effects of doing so may surprise many voters. A voter might reasonably expect abstaining to be treated as a neutral action, not affecting the prospects of that omitted candidate. But instead, leaving a candidate off the list results in the harshest penalty an IRV voter can inflict on that candidate.
5/2/2021
Shooting Down Ranked Voting Systems
Intuitively, IRRV seems to offer an improvement to IRV and perhaps it does. But in this article, it is shown that the example of election failure with IRV with only a slight modification illustrates a similar failure for an IRRV election.
5/13/2021
What is Wrong with our Primaries?
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