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• - Argues against electronic voting and virtual elections, and in favor of paper ballots as a measure to prevent fraud and tyranny. Contains news links on a wide variety of issues.
  
• - Information on voting methods, centering around the "Ranked Pairs" single-winner election method. This site has an explanation of the method, along with a comprehensive comparison of methods, and software for pairwise voting tabulation.
  
• - Site which advocates Anarcho-Capitalism (anarchy combined with free market capitalism) with pointers to editorials.
  
• - Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV & FPTP.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Millions of simulated elections, statistics gathered, utilitarian bests found. Advocates Acceptance/Approval, Borda, Condorcet, Rated, variations, while considering IRV harmful
  
• - SIAM News article about Borda, Condorcet, and Approval voting which uses the Jesse Ventura victory in Minnesota as primary example.
  
• - Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included.
  
• - Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.
  
• - Archive of editorials on issues in the mechanics of US democracy, including the reliability of electronic voting machines, obstacles to voter registration, the Electoral College, and other topics.
  
• - A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies.
  
• - Comprehensive description of various voting systems. Site uses an open Wiki, which allows anyone to make additions or corrections.
  
• - 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 re
  
• - Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods.
  
• - Contains comprehensive information on all aspects of organising elections. Includes detailed information on voting systems, particularly pointing out the current distribution of voting systems in national elections throughout the world
  
• - Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.
  
• - Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems.
  
• - Markus Schulze writes about Condorcet methods. Includes detailed explanation of the Condorcet method ("cloneproof Schwartz sequential dropping", "beatpath method", "Schulze method") which is used e.g. by DEBIAN and SPI. Publ
  
• - Explanation two-party politics against left-right spectrum. Asserts that in perfect elections, candidates will appear equally imperfect, elections' voter turnout will often be low, and all elections will end in near ties.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster
  
• - 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.
  
• - A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections.
  
• - A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation.
  
• - Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods
  
• - 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.
  
• - A pairwise election system where ranked ballots are used to simulate many head-to-head elections, where the winner is the candidate who wins all pairings.
  
• - Article criticizing plurality, and discussing borda voting, instant runoff voting, and approval voting as alternatives.
  
• - Discover magazine critical of winner-take-all and plurality systems, favoring proposals by Donald Saari and Steven Brams.
  
• - Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election)