Ranked choice is good, but we can do better: STAR, range, and approval voting. Video Sources

RCV vs STAR Voting

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Independent Party of Oregon STAR Voting Primary Spotlight on the Data:

STAR Voting. 9 28 2020.

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The Limits of Ranked-Choice Voting

Aaron Hamlin. 2019 2 7. Election Science.

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Overvoting and the Equality of Voice under Instant-Runoff Voting in San Francisco

Francis Neely and Jason McDaniel. 2015. California Journal of Politics and Policy.

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TESTIMONY OF  VIGNESH GANAPATHY POLICY DIRECTOR, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS 

KANSAS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS 

 OCTOBER 27, 2017 

– WRITTEN TESTIMONY ONLY –

Vignesh Ganapathy. 2017 10 27. ACLU.

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Could STAR Voting slay the “electability” dragon?

Sara Wolk. 2020 3 30. Sarawolk.medium.com.

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A Comparison of Efficiency of Multicandidate Electoral Systems

Samuel Merrill III. 1984. American Journaol of Political Science.

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An EmpiricalEvaluation of Six Voting Procedures:
Do They Really Make Any Difference?

Dan S. Felsenthal et al. 1 1993. Journal of Political Science.

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A statistical model for Condorcet efficiency based on simulation under spatial model assumptions.

Samuel Merrill III. 1985. Public Choice.

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Coombs’ method

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cyclic preferences

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intransitive preferences

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On the Relevance of Theoretical Results to Voting

Hannu Numi. 2010 5 29.

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Empirical Evaluation of Voting Rules with Strictly
Ordered Preference Data

Nicholas Mattei.

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Statistical Evaluation of Voting Rules

James Green-Armytage et al. 5 2015. Social Choice and Welfare.

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Borda count

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Other One-Winner Rules

Accurate Democracy.

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Approval Voting in Scientific and Engineering Societies

Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn. 1992 4. Group Decision and Negotiation.

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President Perot or fundamentals of voting theory illustrated with
the 1992 election

Alexander Tabarrok. 2001. Public Choice.

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Positional voting

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Who Ought to be Elected and Who is
Actually Elected? An Empirical
Investigation o f 92 Elections under
Three Procedures

Dan S Felsenthal and Moshe Machover. 1995. Electoral Studies.

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The condorcet-efficiency of sophisticated voting under the plurality and approval procedures

Dan S. Felsenthal et al. 1990 1. Behavioral Science.

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Electing Mayors: A Comparison of Different Electoral Procedures

Henk van der Kolk et al. 2010 9 14. Local Government Studies.

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Supplementary vote

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Instant-runoff voting

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Evaluative voting

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“Asymptotic utilitarianism in scoring rules”

Marcus Pivato. 2014 9. Thema Working Paper.

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Copeland’s method

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Kemeny–Young method

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Review of Paradoxes Afflicting Various Voting Procedures
Where One Out of m Candidates (m ≥ 2) Must Be Elected*

Dan S. Felenthal. 5 2010. Symposium and a workshop on Assessing Alternative Voting Procedures.

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Burlington Vermont 2009 IRV mayor election

Anthony Gierzynski et al. 3 2009.

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Frequency of monotonicity failure under Instant Runoff Voting: Estimates based on a spatial model of elections

Joseph T Ornstein and Robert Z. Norman. 10 2013. Public Choice.

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Cardinal voting

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Exhaustive ballot

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Simulating alternate voting systems

Primer. 2022 11 1.

Traditional Ranked Choice or Version 2.0?

Equal.Vote.

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The Science Behind The Movement

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Range voting with mixtures of honest and strategic voters

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The Pathologies of Voting Schemes

Jiahua Zhang. 2020 5 15. A term project for CS:4980:0004 Spring 2020, Electronic Voting at the University of Iowa. This version is intended for public distribution.

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Why Range Voting is Better than IRV (Instant Runoff Voting)

Rangevoting.org.

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What if the 2004 US presidential election had been held using Range or
Approval voting?

Warren D. Smith et al. 2005 3 8.

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The 3-candidate left-middle-right scenario

Warren D. Smith. 2006 7 17.

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Range Voting satisfies properties that no rank-order system can

Warren D. Smith. 2007 4 28.

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The Best Rank-Order Voting System versus Range Voting

Warren D. Smith. 2009 1 27. 

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The Best Rank-Order Voting System versus Range Voting

Warren D. Smith. 2009 1 27. 

https://www.rangevoting.org/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/BestVrange.html

Best Rank-Order Voting Systems versus Range Voting II: N≥4 candidates under the Random Normal Elections Model (RNEM)

Warren D. Smith. 2009 1 27.

https://www.rangevoting.org/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/Best4.html

Range voting

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The Relative Efficiency of Approval and Condorcet Voting Procedures

Samuel Merrill and Nicolaus Tideman. 1991 1 1. Rationality and Society.

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Which voting rule is most likely to choose the “best” candidate?

T. Nicolaus Tideman and Florenz Plassmann. 2012 3 19.

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An Assessment Of Six Single-Winner Voting Methods

Aaron Hamlin. 2020 5 21. Electionscience.org.

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Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote

Shaun Bowler and Bernard Grofman Eds.. 2000. University of Michigan Press.

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Centripetalism and Electoral Moderation in Established Democracies

Benjamin Reilly. 2018 5 25. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

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Approval voting and positional voting methods:
Inference, relationship, examples

Michel Regenwetter and Ilia Tsetlin. 2003 3 4. Social Choice and Welfare.

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Cardinal Voting: The Way to Escape the Social Choice Impossibility

Sergei Vasiljev. 2014. Young Scientist USA.

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Ranked-Choice Voting and the Potential for Improved Electoral Performance of Third-Party Candidates in America

Alan James Simmons et al. 2022 1 27. American Politics Research.

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Ranked-Choice Voting and Democratic Attitudes

Manuel Gutierrez et al. 2022 7 19. SAGE journals.

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Sophisticated Approval Voting, Ignorance Priors, and Plurality Heuristics:
A Behavioral Social Choice Analysis in a Thurstonian Framework

Michel Regenwetter and Moon-Ho R. Ho. 2007. Psychological Review.

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A FALSE MAJORITY:
The Failed Experiment of Ranked-Choice Voting

Matthew Gagnon et al. 8 2019. The Maine Heritage Policy Center.

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AN ANALYSIS OF RANKED
CHOICE VOTING IN MAINE

Matthew Germer. 9 2021. R Street.

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Promoting majority rule: A response to concerns about “exhausted ballots”

Drew Penrose. 2019 10 8. FairVote.

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What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Using the First-Past-the-Post Voting System?

UK Engage. 2013 6 5. Uk-engage.org

Leading Voting Methods – Pros and Cons

STAR Voting.

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A Review of Various Election Methods

League of Women Voters. 2020 2. Washington Education Fund.

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“STAR voting”

Warren D. Smith. 2018 2. Rangevoting.org

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The Problem With Range Voting and Averaging Candidate Scores

Fairvote.org

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What are the drawbacks of range voting?

Rob Brown. 2015. Quora Answer.

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Have you heard of range or STAR voting? If so, why do you support ranked choice voting, given Arrow’s impossibility theorem?

Rob Brown. 2022. Quora Answer.

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How does STAR Voting compare with plain Score Voting?

Endolith. 2017 2 24. Stack Exchange Answer.

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How does STAR Voting compare with plain Score Voting?

Brythan. 2017 1 5. Stack Exchange Answer.

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The Relaxed Majority Criterion

Mark Frohnmayer. 2017 3 13. Equal.vote.

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Hacker News.

Comment Discussion on STAR Voting compared to other voting systems. 2018.

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Don’t Let this ‘Voting Theorist’ Curb Your Electoral Reform Momentum

Kristin Eberhard. 2017 8 28. Sightline Institute.

2009 Burlington mayoral election

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Ballot (and voter) “exhaustion” under Instant Runoff Voting:
An examination of four ranked-choice elections

Craig M. Burnett and Vladimir Kogan. 2015. Electoral Studies.

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