DEMOCRACY EVOLVES!

Site Outline

Purpose: This site teaches why and how to conduct votes using the best democratic tools for meetings and elections.

elect.htm, brief descriptions of:

Tragedies By Design, 3 common failures of voting
Divide and Repress
Exclude and Ignore
Waste and Excess
Solutions
Single Transferable Vote, 1 winner
Single Transferable Vote, multi-winner
Central swing rep
Recent Evolutionary Steps in pictures
1800s
1900s
2000s
Solutions continued
Condorcet's Rule: definition, example, effects (qualities)
Proportional Representation: women, turnout, campaign funding
Loring Ensemble Rules, Condorcet chair then STV reps: responsive democracy, effects
STV In Pictures
Tally analogy, protecting majority and minority rights
Tally pictures
Political Sim, simulation game
Description, picture
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election.htm, more details about:

Philosophies Hidden In Voting Rules
Philosophies
The Marquis de Condorcet
How to Manipulate Plurality Rules
Gerrymander, free rides
Preference Ballots
Effects and Designs
Single Transferable Vote
Effects
Definitions
Loring Ensemble Rules, Condorcet chair then STV reps
Definitions, effects
Council sizes
Resources
Web sites, bibliography
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enact.htm, Committee Decision Making

Voting in Meetings
Why Vote?
How to manipulate agenda voting.
. Loring One-winner Rule: Condorcet + STV
Voting cycles and manipulation
Condorcet's Rule in Meetings
Rules of Order
How to conduct a meeting vote.
Stability is not rigidity.

budget.htm

Median Voter Process
Half the voters want to give more; half less.
How to conduct an MVP vote.
Hylland-Zeckhauser Point Voting
Linear charges and square root effects.

fund.htm

Philosophy of Proportional Funding
Fair shares balance and limit majority power.
Single Transferable Allocation
Share Allocation Rule
STA compared with STV
STA options
Loring Allocation Rule: Condorcet + STA
LAR
Condorcet-Series Allocation

funding.htm, other rules for funding projects:

STA Options
MFP
Minority Funding Process
MFP
How to conduct an MFP vote
Joint Allocation Rule
Maximum Utility Rules
Agent Allocation Rules
Funding Systems Compared
MVP, MFP, LAR, JAR, Private$
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Question and Answer Game
-- humorous political quotations

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Draft pages:

center.htm
-- Are Central Compromises Good or Bad?

approval.htm
-- For non-competitive votes

consensus.htm
-- For non-competitive decisions

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