VoteFair Ranking
Here on the VoteFair website you
get fair results when you vote!
It's quite unlike the results of U.S. and European governmental elections, and
even unlike the unfair results that sometimes happen on American Idol,
where supposedly fair runoff voting is used.
What's wrong with current voting methods?
We currently use primitive voting methods!
In particular, most elections and contests fail to ask voters to indicate a
second choice, third choice,
and so on when there are more than two choices.
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A fully fair voting method needs to ask: "In addition to your
first choice, who is your second choice, third choice, and so on?"
These secondary preferences can be collected on paper or on a website using
order-of-preference ballots
like the one shown here.
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After you collect full preference information, how should it be used?
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The preference information needs to be analyzed so that every preference of
every voter is taken into account!
Only
VoteFair ranking
does this.
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Try it now on the
"survey" page! It's free and anonymous. If you don't have a specific need, just use imaginary names and imaginary ballot preferences (such as an idealized Presidential election ballot).
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What about instant runoff voting (IRV),
proportional representation (PR),
the Condorcet method, and other voting methods?
If you have heard about
instant runoff voting (IRV),
proportional representation (PR), or the Condorcet method,
you will want to know that they don't take into account
every preference of every voter.
And many of us have thought that perhaps each preference level should have a
number assigned to it and the numbers should be added together to find
out which candidate has the highest count, but
this approach (called the Borda count) is well-known to
easily produce unfair results.
The comparison
and FAQ pages
explain in more detail why these methods do not always
produce fair results.
Better yet, each time you calculate VoteFair results,
the results page also shows the results that these other methods
would produce.
And no other voting method does this!
Not only does VoteFair ranking
produce results that are always fair, but it also
reveals which choice is second-most popular, third-most popular,
and so on!
No other voting method even attempts to figure out an overall ranking.
How can I learn more about VoteFair ranking?
Read the answers to frequently asked questions to better understand VoteFair ranking.
Read
Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections.
This book describes how VoteFair ranking works, why it produces fairer results, and how it can be used to improve the fairness of electing government officials.
It is now available at
Amazon.com.
For fun, read the
Abe and Thomas for President poem.
This poem, which was written well before the Bush-Gore-Nader Presidential election,
entertainingly warns about what would happen if lots of voters
vote for a third-party candidate,
why there are only two main political parties in the U.S.,
and what can be done to produce fair voting outcomes in the future.
Explore the other web pages listed in the navigation outline (in the
upper
right).
Send feedback to Richard Fobes at
© Copyright 2006 Richard Fobes
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