Voting Systems Websites

A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.

Campaigns for proportional representation and the Single Transferable Vote system in parliaments, assemblies and councils. Based in the UK, but information is applicable to other countries and to non-governmental bodies.

Organization that researches how voting systems affect participation, representation and governance. Advocates proportional representation systems for legislative elections, instant runoff voting for executive and judicial elections and public interest redistricting.

Home of the Election-methods mailing list. Discussion of single-winner election reform, the relative merits of different proportional representation systems, and the technical underpinnings of all election methods.

Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful

Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.

A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation.

A voting procedure in which voters can vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they wish. Each candidate approved of receives one vote, and the candidate with the most votes wins.

Project set up to evaluate the current state and reliability of U.S. voting systems, and to propose specific uniform requirements and guidelines for U.S. voting systems. Formed in December 2000 in response to the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.

Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster

Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election)

Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.

A Northern Ireland-based not-for-profit organisation which aims to promote the use of Borda voting and related voting procedures on all contentious questions of social choice.

Describes the voting system for German Federal elections, with discussion, statistics, and links related to unusual characteristics such as with overhang seats and negative weighting of votes.

Offer a comprehensive description of various voting systems including methods, criteria and history.

Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV and FPTP.

Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams.

Promotes discussion of immigrant voting rights (also known as resident voting, alien suffrage, and non-citizen voting) as a sensible policy to strengthen democracy by encouraging citizenship, community building, and government accountability.