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This website is about ranked-choice-voting and the resulting governing systems.

Simply put, voters in a ranked-choice voting election fill out a ballot that ranks all the candidates for a particular office. While this is fairly simple from a voter’s standpoint, the question becomes — how do we determine the winner?

This website:

  • Explains how the winner in a ranked-choice voting election is determined.
  • Provides several examples using ranked-choice voting in real elections.
  • Explores the consequences of using such an electoral system, addressing such problems as polarization, vote-splitting and the spoiler effect.

This website addresses ranked-choice voting for both single-winner and multi-winner elections. In the U.S., multi-winner elections are common for city council elections and the like. Here in my home state of New Hampshire, our House of Representatives has several multi-member districts. More on that elsewhere in this website.

This website is a dual static site and a blog.

  • The static part this site, led by this home page, are meant to be an explanation of how ranked-choice voting works. I do not anticipate a major innovation in voting methodology in the near future, and so these pages will generally remain fixed. It is always possible that I will put in some minor revisions to make the explanation clearer.
  • The blog will be a collection of stories and speculations about how ranked-choice has worked in the past, and might possibly work in the future.

Navigating This Site

Below is a table of contents for the various pages on this website with direct links to the indicated page.

At the bottom of each page on the left side, there will be a link to the next recommended page. See the blue color links below. If you want to review some other page, you can get to it quickly by clicking the bottom right TOC which will take you directly to the table of contents. There will be pages where there is another appropriate link tucked between the next recommended page and the TOC.

Some of the pages are fairly long. So at the top of these long pages there is a set of jump links that will take you directly to that portion of the page. See the blue colored link at the top. Before beginning, I suggest that you do the following exercises.

  1. Go to the top of this page and click on the ”Navigating This Site” link to see where it takes you.
  2. Go to the bottom of this page and click on the ”TOC” link to see where it takes you. The headings in the TOC are links to the various pages.
  3. Then go to the bottom of this page and click on the ”Electoral Systems” link to begin.

Feedback is welcome at any time. The “Feedback” link at the top of the TOC will set up an email that will go directly to me.

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