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Key:
Common plurality rule's erratic flip flops
Better one-winner rules such as Instant Runoff Voting
Condorcet's rule for 1 central winner
PR by party lists or Single Transferable Vote for fairly distributed winners
Ensemble rules for a centrally- balanced council

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This site alone develops ways to achieve  centrally- balanced councils,  central policies, and  fair-share funding for projects and agencies.  A handful of sites explain  Condorcet or  PR rules which can be combined to create  centrally- balanced councils.  A dozen sites compare election methods from around the world. (Unfortunately, none compare legislative methods.)  Please distinguish these sites from the hundreds giving away political rumors and self-serving opinions.

Links

The voting tools page has links to software for putting accurate democracy to work in any organization. The linked sites page lists eighty-some sites linked to Accurate Democracy and likely to have related material.

The following sites have links to dozens of others by theorists, practitioners, and activists.

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources is an extensive collection of over 3,200 links to the major political and governmental sites around the world. Sections include: Elections, Political theory, Government sites, Government info, British politics, Area studies, Local & regional, Constitutions, Political parties, Manifestos, Political thought, International relations, Data archives, Journals & news, Other politics websites,

DMOZ... Voting_Systems
Google... Voting_Systems
Yahoo... Voting_Systems
Wikipedia... Voting_Systems

The ACE Project researches the Administration and Cost of Elections and provides web pages in English, Spanish and French.
Ciencia Pol’tica en Internet Asociacion Espa–ola de Ciencia Politica y de la Administracion (Spanish Political Science Association)
Sandro F. Reis in Portuguese
Japanese page of links to voting systems
The American Political Science Association

Take action.


To support PR and IRV rules, contact:

Australia PR Society of Australia
Britain Electoral Reform Society
Canada Fair Vote Canada, “More choice. Fairer results.
Stronger representation.”
Vote YES for BC-STV Proportional Representation
Green party of Canada Proportional Representation
USA FairVote: the Center for Voting and Democracy
    Midwest Democracy Center
    California Citizens for Proportional Representation
    Illinois Citizens for Proportional Representation
    Citizens Assembly Blog
Be sure to check the tools page for programs that tally multi-winner elections and decisions.


To support Condorcet rules, contact:
Although many academics promote Condorcet rules, no political activists have taken it up. Most activists want to pull policies toward one side.
Blake Cretney offers an excellent web site for Condorcet- completion rules. He offers free, open-source software at SourceForge.
Rob Lanphier's Condorcet's Method explains Condorcet's criterion and others.
Election Methods Mailing List hosts an open discussion focused mainly on the technical qualities of single-winner election methods.
Be sure to check the tools page for programs that tally single-winner elections and policy decisions.

Building Civil Society


Open Society Institute
Co-Intelligence Institute
Innovations in Democracy
Yes Magazine

Economic Justice
New Rules Project includes practical advice for “devolving authority and democratizing decisionmaking.”
Single Tax concepts of Henry Georges applied to achieve global economic justice, by Nicolaus Tideman.
 

Non-cyber sites for co-operation:
A Solar Street at Windsong CoHousing Community
On Solar Streets and Wilderness Alleys
DOC, Deck Over Car, an urban-alley commons
Other Inventions

  The next page gives three voting reforms most likely to win favor in the USA.

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