Questions tagged [voting-systems]
For questions about rule systems for scoring votes. Not for questions about country-specific rules or practices but for the theory and practice of voting systems. Examples include proportional-representation and first-past-the-post.
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Does Instant Runoff Voting with non-voting counting exist, and what are its pro and cons?
Reading this question, and in particular the answer by @Ben, gave me a thought.
He describes how Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) can be seen as a compression of running sequential runoff rounds, where in ...
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Why isn’t ranked choice voting giving those who vote for unpopular candidates disproportionate voter power?
In RCV, voters rank candidates in order of preference (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). If no candidate gets a majority (over 50%) of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and ...
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Real-world voting systems that are not weighted majority simple games?
I am looking for real-world organizations whose voting rule is not a weighted majority simple game.
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A simple game is a function that maps every coalition of players to either 0 or 1; ...
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Where can I find the new German election law?
Elections in Germany are coming up and after trouble with increasing parliament size the government has changed the election law in 2023 to prevent that from happening.
This changed was then amended ...
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Reduced-Win-Quota STV [closed]
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In Single Transferable Vote (STV), what would be the effects of setting seatsTotal = candidatesRemaining - 1 (until seatsTotal = seatsDesired) when calculating the votesToWinSeat quota?
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Examples of countries that decided whether to change their voting rule?
In the year 2011, the United Kingdom held the so-called “Alternative Vote Referendum” to decide whether to replace its “first-past-the-post” method for the “alternative vote” method. In that ...
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Why do big states have more representatives rather than more voting power via weighted voting?
In Switzerland, there are 1 to 2 "senators" per "state" (Canton). In the US, there are 2 senators per state. In Brazil, there are 3 senators per state. In Germany, there are 3 to 6 ...
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Are there countries where only voters affected by a given policy get to vote on it?
I currently live in a condo in the state of Washington. This makes me a minority as 67.2% of voters live in single family homes. Even in Seattle itself 51.3% of units are single family homes or ...
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any USA polling on what if presidential/congressional election were ranked-choice voting
A lot of people who are dissatisfied with the American political system have suggested ranked-choice voting.
I cannot find any polling where the people are asked, "What if the presidential or ...
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Why aren't alliances and independent runs more common in the UK?
Both Australia and the UK have single-member constituency-based representative electoral systems with a similar ratio of voters per seat. However, while it is common in Australia for parties to form ...
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How would the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact handle non-FPTP elections?
It seems that people who argue that the President of the United States should be elected by popular vote, and supporting the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC or NaPoVoInterCo), are ...
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What are the pros and cons of ranked-choice voting compared to first-past-the-post voting?
What are the pros and cons of ranked-choice voting (RCV) compared to first-past-the-post voting (FPTP), supported by research?
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What is the official reason for the low error rate of the 100k signature requirement for presidential candidates in Russia
In Russia, you need 100.000 signatures to be allowed to run for presidency. However, if I understood the article below correctly, only 105.000 signatures may be turned in. While the minimal support is ...
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What is the most significant currently active organization using quadratic voting?
Is quadratic voting being significantly used anywhere in the world right now? Especially in any type of political system or social structure (beyond blockchains)?
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What voting process to use to fill multiple roles when voted for by the applicants
I'm looking for a voting system for a specific usecase:
I have a scenario where a small group of (less than twenty) members will need to fill a number of roles. They should each be able to list their ...
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