Elections: Results and Voting systems Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms. http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/vote/vote.html

PR-Squared A new electoral system which boasts the advantages of first-past-the-post, but retains the "fairness" of proportional representation. http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/electsys.html

Election Methods Website Site advocating Condorcet/pairwise voting methods. Includes detailed explanations of Condorcet methods. http://electionmethods.org

Center for Voting and Democracy 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. http://www.fairvote.org

Approval Voting 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. http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/approvalvote/center.html

Condorcet's Method 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. http://www.eskimo.com/~robla/politics/condorcet.html

The Chronicle of Higher Education: When Votes Don't Add Up Article describing relative merits of Approval, Instant Runoff, and Borda methods http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i10/10a01801.htm

Politicians and Polytopes mailing list Preferential voting, and the mathematics of methods derived from or compliant with, principles of STV & FPTP. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/politicians-and-polytopes

Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic Out of print book by Samuel Merrill which explains voting systems. http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=b&id=2444992&cf=0&clink=dmetf

Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project 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. http://www.vote.caltech.edu/

Making Sense out of Consensus SIAM News article about Borda, Condorcet, and Approval voting which uses the Jesse Ventura victory in Minnesota as primary example. http://www.siam.org/siamnews/10-00/consensus.htm

Whyfiles.org -- "Voting for better voting" Alternative voting systems could reduce chances for another election-day disaster http://whyfiles.org/shorties/068voting/index.html

How Democracy Works 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. http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis_democracy/hillis_index.html

Declared-Strategy Voting Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election) http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/diss/

Accurate Democracy Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included. http://accuratedemocracy.com

Condorcet.org 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. http://condorcet.org/

International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) A private, nonprofit organization established in 1987 to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies. http://www.ifes.org/

Election Selection: Science News Online Article criticizing plurality, and discussing Borda Voting, Instant Runoff Voting, and Approval Voting as alternatives. http://www.sciencenews.org/20021102/bob8.asp

Citizens for Approval Voting A nonprofit political organization advocating the Approval Voting system of elections. http://www.approvalvoting.com/

Approval Voting Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting. http://www.tursiops.cc/idhop/av/