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Politics in America has always been dominated by two major parties and often several others that are widely understood to not have a chance of taking power.  Is there some way to change this?

Articles in this series discuss several other ways we might vote that would encourage there to be a wider range of choices for voters.  The basic notion is that voters should be permitted to vote against any candidate just as they can vote for any candidate.  Several approaches to allowing this are discussed in different articles. 

Balanced voting (which is a term that unfortunately has been adopted, mostly in Europe with a completely different meaning) quite directly takes into account opposition to a candidate as well as support. This will often remove the advantage that celebrity candidates have. 

Related Topic(s): Changing Party; Evaluative Voting Systems; Federalize Elections; Majoritarian Democracy; Polarized Duopoly; Resolution Of Disapproval; True The Vote; Unrig The System

         

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1 Article 03/11/2024 Families of Voting Systems (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
2 Article 02/25/2024 Illusions of Ending the Two-Party Duopoly (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
3 Article 02/06/2024 Can We Reform our Polarized Two-Party Politics? (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
4 Article 01/10/2024 Is BAV Compatible with the Electoral College? (View How Many People Read This) 6 6 Comment Count
5 Article 12/28/2023 Bottom-up Electoral Reform (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
6 Article 12/15/2023 Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
7 Article 11/30/2023 Do IRV Voters Just Need Training? (View How Many People Read This) 21 21 Comment Count
8 Article 11/05/2023 Spoiled Again (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
9 Article 10/19/2023 Good Strategic Voting (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
10 Article 09/27/2023 Comparing BAV with Ranked Choice Voting (View How Many People Read This) 17 17 Comment Count
11 Article 09/03/2023 How Did Trump Ever Win? (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
12 Article 07/08/2023 Condorcet and the Spoiler Effect (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
13 Article 06/04/2023 Balanced Condorcet Voting (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
14 Article 03/17/2023 Star Voting on Fabric (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
15 Article 02/16/2023 Escaping Duopoly (View How Many People Read This) 33 33 Comment Count
16 Article 01/27/2023 The Level Election Playing Field (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
17 Article 01/09/2023 Star-like Voting (View How Many People Read This) 25 25 Comment Count
18 Article 12/14/2022 Balanced Approval Limitations (View How Many People Read This) 6 6 Comment Count
19 Article 11/21/2022 Reflections on Voters (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
20 Article 10/24/2022 Words Perpetuating the Two-Party System (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
21 Article 10/01/2022 Obstruction of Voter Expression (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
22 Article 09/17/2022 The Distraction of Score Voting (View How Many People Read This) 9 9 Comment Count
23 Article 08/25/2022 Could a Stealth Candidate Endanger a Balanced Approval Election? (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
24 Article 08/05/2022 Does Balance Suffice? (View How Many People Read This) 25 25 Comment Count
25 Article 07/25/2022 Why is Balanced Approval Voting so Hard to Understand? (View How Many People Read This) 21 21 Comment Count
26 Article 07/05/2022 The Two-party Duopoly Sure, but What Else is Wrong? (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
27 Article 06/15/2022 Just a Little Off-balance (View How Many People Read This) 16 16 Comment Count
28 Article 05/24/2022 Latvia Wisely Chose to Adopt BAV (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
29 Article 04/20/2022 Contending with the NPV Dilemma (View How Many People Read This)
30 Article 04/05/2022 The Second Interstate Vote Initiative (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
31 Article 03/23/2022 The National Popular Vote (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
32 Article 03/11/2022 Against the Partisan Divide (View How Many People Read This)
33 Article 02/22/2022 Ranked Voting: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (View How Many People Read This) 6 6 Comment Count
34 Article 02/04/2022 'Tis a Gift to be Simple: One Man, One Vote (View How Many People Read This) 13 13 Comment Count
35 Quicklink 01/30/2022 Balanced Voting: Another View (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
36 Article 01/02/2022 How Biased is IRV? (View How Many People Read This) 7 7 Comment Count
37 Article 12/14/2021 Voting Systems Without Bias (View How Many People Read This) 6 6 Comment Count
38 Article 11/05/2021 Proportional Voting and BAV (View How Many People Read This) 7 7 Comment Count
39 Article 10/11/2021 Can We End the Two-Party System? (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
40 Article 09/09/2021 Voters Need to Understand How Votes are Counted (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
41 Article 08/21/2021 What is Right about Plurality Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
42 Article 08/06/2021 Notation for Voting Systems (View How Many People Read This) 12 12 Comment Count
43 Article 07/31/2021 Retrospective on Balanced Voting (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
44 Article 07/05/2021 The Perfect Voting System (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
45 Article 05/13/2021 What is Wrong with our Primaries? (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
46 Article 05/02/2021 Shooting Down Ranked Voting Systems (View How Many People Read This) 6 6 Comment Count
47 Article 02/23/2021 Just Think about Runoff Voting (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
48 Article 02/11/2021 Partisanship (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
49 Article 02/05/2021 Should Balanced Approval Voting be Simplified? (View How Many People Read This) 8 8 Comment Count
50 Article 01/07/2021 Is Democracy Worth Saving? (View How Many People Read This) 17 17 Comment Count
51 Article 11/17/2020 What Could Go Wrong With Balanced Plurality Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
52 Quicklink 10/27/2020 A Rand Study of Balanced Plurality Voting (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
53 Article 10/14/2020 Can Vote Suppression be Suppressed? (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
54 Article 08/28/2020 What Changes with Balanced Approval Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
55 Article 07/27/2020 BAV Now Appears in Wikipedia (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
56 Article 06/30/2020 What About STAR Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
57 Article 06/09/2020 How Electability Frustrates Democracy (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
58 Article 05/30/2020 How Would Balanced Voting Help? (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
59 Article 05/20/2020 The Electoral College (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
60 Article 03/25/2020 Approval Voting Fails to be Balanced (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
61 Article 02/20/2020 Making Choices (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
62 Article 12/16/2019 What Could be Wrong with Ranked-Choice Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
63 Article 10/15/2019 Older Ranked-Choice Voting Systems (View How Many People Read This) 10 10 Comment Count
64 Article 07/08/2019 Two Properties for Categorizing Voting Systems (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
65 Diary 04/10/2019 The Human Factor in Voting (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
66 Article 12/10/2018 A Voter's Quandry (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
67 Article 10/19/2018 Opposites (View How Many People Read This) 8 8 Comment Count
68 Article 06/13/2018 A First Experience with Ranked Voting (View How Many People Read This) 11 11 Comment Count
69 Article 05/16/2018 Arrow's Theorem and Overstatements (View How Many People Read This) 5 5 Comment Count
70 Article 04/03/2018 Voting Systems in Action (View How Many People Read This) 6 6 Comment Count
71 Article 03/23/2018 Yet Another Balanced Voting Method (View How Many People Read This) 16 16 Comment Count
72 Article 03/07/2018 One Man, One Vote (View How Many People Read This) 13 13 Comment Count
73 Article 02/14/2018 What is the Matter with Balanced Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 20 20 Comment Count
74 Article 11/27/2017 Can Less be Better? (View How Many People Read This) 8 8 Comment Count
75 Article 11/13/2017 What's Wrong with Approval Voting (View How Many People Read This) 17 17 Comment Count
76 Article 06/18/2017 Voter Emotions Matter (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
77 Article 06/01/2017 Rethinking Which Voting System is Best (View How Many People Read This) 8 8 Comment Count
78 Article 04/06/2017 Instant Runoff - Balanced once Again (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
79 Article 03/07/2017 Ranked Voting (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
80 Article 12/15/2016 Parties -- What Are They Good For? (View How Many People Read This) 7 7 Comment Count
81 Article 12/15/2016 Parties -- What Are They Good For? (View How Many People Read This) 7 7 Comment Count
82 Article 10/27/2016 Who Can Compete in Our Elections? (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
83 Article 10/07/2016 Who Will Win this Election? Part II (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
84 Article 09/30/2016 Who Will Win this Election? (View How Many People Read This) 7 7 Comment Count
85 Article 09/14/2016 Counting Votes to Make Voting Count (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
86 Article 06/15/2016 Are Political Parties Consistent with Democracy? (View How Many People Read This) 14 14 Comment Count
87 Article 04/10/2016 Isn't IRV a Great System for Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 10 10 Comment Count
88 Article 02/23/2016 Balanced Ration Voting (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
89 Article 02/19/2016 Range Voting (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
90 Article 02/16/2016 Self-Expression Versus Actual Effectiveness in Voting (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
91 Article 01/13/2016 Polarization is the Problem - and Balance is the Solution (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
92 Article 11/09/2015 Approval Voting and Confusing Language (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
93 Article 10/21/2015 Neither Positive nor Negative but Balanced Voting (View How Many People Read This) 10 10 Comment Count
94 Article 06/25/2014 A Parliament in Washington? (View How Many People Read This) 11 11 Comment Count
95 Article 06/17/2014 Instant Runoff or Approval? (View How Many People Read This) 3 3 Comment Count
96 Article 06/03/2014 Instant Runoff Balanced Voting (IRBV) (View How Many People Read This) 2 2 Comment Count
97 Article 06/02/2014 What's Wrong With Instant Runoff Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 1 1 Comment Count
98 Article 05/26/2014 What Might be the Best Voting System? (View How Many People Read This) 11 11 Comment Count
99 Article 05/22/2014 Are More Political Parties Possible Here? (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count
100 Article 05/22/2014 What's Wrong with First-Choice Voting? (View How Many People Read This) 4 4 Comment Count

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