11/21/2022
Anyone interested in inventing a voting system probably harbors some assumptions about how voters think and behave. Such assumptions may be realistic, l but most likely there will be some fallacies as well. This suggests that we might examine a voting system to determine what voter behavior would make the voting system behave properly. This article takes that approach with several different voting systems, just to see whether that provides any insight into the voting systems. The apparent assumptions about human behavior may in some instances seem quite absurd.
2/16/2023
Until BAV is adopted and found to undermine the duopoly, we will not know for certain that it will. However, there is a persuasive argument for that to be what happens. For Approval Voting and for Ranked Choice Voting there is not even an argument that this will happen, merely an unsupportable hope for it.
6/4/2023
Balanced voting systems allow voters to explicitly express opposition as easily as to express support for a candidate. But more broadly we might consider a voting system to be balanced even if it merely infers relative support and opposition, so long as, in tallying, the vote takes either expression equally into account. Condorcet Voting is a system that enjoys considerable interest among voting specialists, but it seems mostly on theoretical grounds. This article describes a system that, with the weaker notion of balance described above, is balanced. This article would seem to be mostly of theoretical interest.
7/8/2023
Condorcet and the Spoiler Effect
This article is a continuation of the previous one and likewise is primarily of theoretical interest.
9/27/2023
Comparing BAV with Ranked Choice Voting
IRV and BAV are such very different approaches to voting that it seems difficult to make comparisons and especially for comparing the systems with real-world data from an election. This article shows how measurements could be taken.
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