
	Where results make sense

Topic: Range voting

Related Topics

Cardinal Ratings

Vote swapping

Cumulative voting

Single transferable vote

Voting system

Condorcet method

Borda count

Overhang seat

Psephology

Electoral fusion

Delegated legislation

In the News (Thu 12 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Approval voting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Approval voting is a voting system used for elections, in which each voter can vote for as many or as few candidates as the voter chooses.
		Historically, something resembling Approval voting for candidates was used in the Republic of Venice during the 13th century and for elections in 19th century England.
		In this vote, the candidates for the capital are Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Approval_voting (1551 words)

	[No title]
		Range voting: In an N-candidate election, each vote is an N-tuple of numbers each in the range 0 to 99.
		Also, range voting is simpler in the sense that it requires fewer operations to perform an election.
		Meanwhile with range voting they just rank the ones they know about and leave the rest blank, or they could opt to "fill in all the rest with X" where X is a number they specify.
	www.math.temple.edu /~wds/homepage/rangeVirv (2110 words)

	Introduction
		The Center for Voting and Democracy was formed in 1992 in Cincinnati, Ohio by electoral reformers and educators from nineteen states.
		By undercutting the right to vote that is at the heart of representative democracy, winner-take-all systems were seen to diminish the ability of government to act in voters' interests.
		Projects have ranged from a speaking tour of New Zealand in the fall of 1993 to speeches at conferences of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Americans for Democratic Action.
	www.fairvote.org /reports/1993/introduction.html (1252 words)

	AVC Advantage- Sequoia Voting Systems
		Sequoia Voting Systems is an elections company that provides a full range of voting systems solutions, including full face and touch-screen DRE systems, optical scan precinct and central systems, complementary election database management software, voter registration, and ballot and booklet printing.
		Vote processing via multiple independent data paths, randomized and stored three different ways to assure absolute secrecy of the vote, absolute accuracy in vote counting, and absolute verifiability of results.
		Voting is quicker and simpler than paper ballot or paginating systems.
	www.sequoiavote.com /bAVCAdvantage.php (691 words)

	Social and Political Context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Voting operations may be simpler to implement in broadly homogeneous societies with a single standard language and common cultural expectations.
		Measures to protect the integrity of voting will generally need to be more intensive to ensure that the public has faith in the transparency, reliability and security of all processes associated with voting.
		Close protection of voters and of election materials may be advisable, through the use of armed military or police guards at voting stations and even armed military or police protection for voters and materials on their way to and from voting stations.
	www.aceproject.org /main/english/po/po50.htm (1355 words)

	Voting_system
		Voting is best known for its use in elections and is often seen as the defining feature of democracy, where citizen preferences are used to determine the composition of government.
		Consensus, for example, which is sometimes put forward as a voting system, is more properly a broad way of working with others, analogous to democracy or anarchy (See consensus decision making for disciplined consensus methods and how they relate to voting).
		A voting system may select only one option (usually a candidate, but also an option that represents a decision), in which case it is called a "single winner system", or it may select multiple options, for example candidates to fill an assembly or alternative possible decisions on the measure the ballot posed.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Voting_system (2206 words)

	Demographic Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Analysis of potential voter numbers, accessible sites for voting, and the characteristics of voters in different geographic areas is the basis for effective planning of voting operations and the reliability, quality, and efficiency of service provided to voters.
		In determining voting sites and their resourcing there is a wide variety of demographic data that may be useful in particular situations.
		Where voting for an election is permitted at foreign country voting locations, liaison with embassies or other government agencies responsible for tracking international movements will assist in identifying external locations with significant numbers of potential voters and in any required registration of these voters.
	www.aceproject.org /main/english/po/pog01 (1285 words)

	The Voting Rights Act Of 1965
		Section 2 of the Act, which closely followed the language of the 15th amendment, applied a nationwide prohibition against the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on the literacy tests on a nationwide basis.
		Under Section 5, jurisdictions covered by these special provisions could not implement any change affecting voting until the Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia determined that the change did not have a discriminatory purpose and would not have a discriminatory effect.
		Congress had found that case-by-case litigation was inadequate to combat wide-spread and persistent discrimination in voting, because of the inordinate amount of time and energy required to overcome the obstructionist tactics invariably encountered in these lawsuits.
	www.usdoj.gov /crt/voting/intro/intro_b.htm (757 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The voting platforms would still be under the control of election officials, and the physical environment could be modified as needed and monitored (e.g., by election officials, volunteers, or even cameras) to address security and privacy concerns, and prevent coercion or other forms of intervention.
		While the concept of voting from home or work is attractive and offers significant benefits (e.g., the ability to conduct online research on candidates prior to voting, and the empowerment of the disabled), it also poses substantial security risks and other concerns relative to civic culture.
		Vote by mail: Oregon is the first, and so far only, state to move to all mail voting. Oregon mails ballots to all registered voters, who return the filled-in ballots by mail.
	www.digitalgovernment.org /library/library/doc/ipi_onlinevoting.doc (18745 words)

	Voting System Standards, Overview
		In addition, voting systems that use electronic ballots and transmit official vote data from the polling place to another location over a public network are now designated as Public Network DRE Voting Systems and are subject to the standards applicable to other DRE systems, and to requirements specific to systems that use public network telecommunications.
		Human interface and usability issues for the general voting public are addressed in standards for ballot formatting, which require vendors to have the capability of producing ballots with uniform allocation of space and fonts.
		Voting Capabilities: These functional capabilities include all operations conducted at the polling place by voters and officials including the generation of status messages.
	www.fec.gov /agenda/agendas2001/mtgdoc01-62/overview.htm (5471 words)

	usnews.com: The People's Vote: Voting Rights Act (1965)
		The use of poll taxes in national elections had been abolished by the 24th amendment (1964) to the Constitution; the Voting Rights Act directed the Attorney General to challenge the use of poll taxes in state and local elections.
		Because the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the most significant statutory change in the relationship between the Federal and state governments in the area of voting since the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, it was immediately challenged in the courts.
		Between 1965 and 1969, the Supreme Court issued several key decisions upholding the constitutionality of Section 5 and affirming the broad range of voting practices for which preclearance was required.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/documents/docpages/document_page100.htm (563 words)

	TITLE 17: CHAPTER 18 - ARTICLE 3 - CONTROL SHARE ACQUISITIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(vii) "Voting power" means the sole or shared power to vote or direct the voting of shares, directly or indirectly, other than under an immediately revocable proxy that authorizes the person named proxy to vote at a meeting of shareholders that was called before the proxy is delivered or at an adjournment of the meeting.
		(ii) Each voting group entitled to vote separately on a proposal by a majority vote of all the votes entitled to be cast by that voting group excluding all interested shares.
		(a) A shareholder of the issuing public corporation, other than the acquiring person, who does not vote in favor of the control share acquisition may dissent from any proposal to accord voting rights to the control shares over which voting power was or is to be acquired in the control share acquisition.
	legisweb.state.wy.us /statutes/titles/title17/c18a03.htm (1497 words)

	: : : SMARTMATIC_Press Room : : :
		Together, Sequoia and Smartmatic will be able to enhance our full range of voting solutions and services to better serve both established democracies and the many new ones being born today,” said Tracey Graham, President, Sequoia.
		In 2004, Smartmatic’s electronic voting solution successfully recorded a total of nearly 16 million votes in Latin America – including the first national election ever handled by an electronic voting solution with a voter-verified paper trail.
		Sequoia Voting Systems has provided election services and support to state and local government for more than 100 years – dating back to the nation’s first lever-based mechanical voting equipment in the 1890s.
	www.smartmatic.com /news_060_2005-01.htm (571 words)

	Simulation Of Various Voting Models for Close Elections
		Before voting, a random value from 0.0 to the error factor with a random sign is added to each preference of each voter for each candidate.
		Another variation on Rated Vote, For N candidates, voters rate each choice on a scale of 1..N. This could also be seen as a variation on Ranked voting, with the allowance for assigning any number of candidates to any rank.
		Ranked Voting collects the same data as IRV but uses it to better effect because the overall will of the voters is considered at once.
	bolson.org /voting/essay.html (2317 words)

	No E(asy) Cure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		What probably astonished most people was the sheer range of voting systems in the U.S. It took only a few days before war was declared on chad and people started talking about electronic and online voting systems as the answer to everything.
		In Internet voting, there's the political issue of shifting the burden of supplying and maintaining the voting infrastructure from election officials to individual voters.
		Overall, it seems unlikely that electronic voting would fix the kind of problem that happened in Florida, where the margin for error in the voting systems was greater than the margin of victory.
	www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/press/pres20010117.html (531 words)

	Voting System Performance Rating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Voting System Performance Rating (VSPR) is focused on defining objective ways to measure the performance of voting systems.
		Any qualified person is entitled to membership in one of the voting Council Groups which are responsible for governance and for confirming VSPR's RFR standards.
		The membership confirmation process is subject to an application procedure and Council Group vote and includes the possibility of appeal.
	vspr.org (161 words)

	MIT-Caltech faculty from many sciences will seek voting remedy, Vest tells CNN - MIT News Office
		Some voters may have voted twice; some may have voted but it didn't record; and some may have not voted for president.
		With many urban areas using (lever) machines designed in 1892, which are unreliable and easily tampered with, President Vest said "a system that is easy to use, that is reliable, that is secure" must be developed.
		MIT, Caltech to develop reliable voting machine - The presidents of MIT and Caltech have announced a collaborative project to develop an easy-to-use, reliable, affordable and secure United States voting machine.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2000/votcnn.html (393 words)

	Which_oneareyou@gj.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When voting you must but a number in the subject line.
		The voting range is from 1-10, 10 being the highest.
		When voting, put what you're voting for in the subject line and the number that recieves, then put the next thing of what you're voting for in the subject line and what that recieves.
	www.greatestjournal.com /community/which_oneareyou (458 words)

	APPROVAL Central - Find great websites with information on 'approval' and related information. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Approval voting is a limited form of range voting, where the range that voters...
		Approval Voting is a simple voting system with powerful benefits.
		Approval Voting is an educational and outreach organization dedicated to...
	www.g3labs.com /search/_xml/a/p/approval.html (770 words)

	Sequoia Voting Systems and Smartmatic Combine to Form Global Leader in Electronic Voting Solutions
		One of the nation's largest election service and technology providers, Sequoia Voting Systems today announced its combination with Smartmatic, a Boca Raton, Florida-based leader in highly-secure electronic voting solutions.
		In 2004, Smartmatic's electronic voting solution successfully recorded a total of nearly 16 million votes in Latin America - including the first national election ever handled by an electronic voting solution with a voter-verified paper trail.
		Sequoia Voting Systems has provided election services and support to state and local government for more than 100 years - dating back to the nation's first lever-based mechanical voting equipment in the 1890s.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/2005/Mar/1123645.htm (949 words)

	Voting Schemes Based on Candidate-Orderings Or (ResearchIndex)
		Abstract: We give a family of scenarios in which any voting system in which each voter's vote is based purely on his perceived ordering of the 3 candidates, is entirely helpless { must regard the election as a 3-way tie { so will necessarily elect a random candidate.
		These scenarios are based on a new construction of \intransitive dice" having independent interest.
		1 Available electronically as http://www (context) - Smith, voting et al.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /593235.html (188 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)