Many people have figured out that the plurality or “first-past-the-post” voting system used in much of the U.S. causes political dysfunction and polarization. It limits… Read More »BTR-IRV: A voting system everyone can live with
The post investigates three questions: What is precinct summability? Is it important? And how much should one worry about it being a property of a… Read More »On Precinct Summability
No voting system is perfect. Each makes different tradeoffs between various properties. Given the wide range of possible voting systems, it can be fruitful to… Read More »Dasgupta and Maskin on “Elections and Strategic Voting”
Are you tired of negative political attacks flooding the airwaves every election season? Are you fed up with political polarization and gridlock in Washington? Do… Read More »Movie review: Majority Rules (2024)
No electoral voting method is perfect. The various methods of casting and counting ballots make different tradeoffs in terms of the simplicity or complexity of… Read More »Voting methods and the center squeeze in the Alaska 2022 special election
In just the first two weeks, the second Trump administration has implemented drastic and far-reaching changes in the US. The Trump Administration has justified their… Read More »What Decisive Mandate?
In April 2024, Andrew Yang gave a TED Talk entitled “Why US politics is broken — and how to fix it” in which he diagnoses… Read More »Two Major Parties are not on Team “overhaul the incentives”
Canadian activist Paige Saunders has a new video about Ranked Choice Voting entitled How the Two Parties Crush Competition (31 min). The video is a… Read More »Paige Saunders: How The Two Parties Crush Competition
The Editorial Board of The Washington Post has endorsed ranked-choice voting in a column asking voters to “Put ranked-choice voting at the top of your… Read More »The Washington Post endorses ranked-choice voting!
The Problem This past week, the debate between President Biden and Former President Trump showed clearly that neither of the top two contenders for the… Read More »Ever want more than two choices?