Campaigns and Elections
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- Election Resources on the Internet
- Links to Internet sites around the world which provide complete and detailed national and local election statistics.
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- Electoral Calendar
- Worldwide electoral calendar includes the dates of presidential, legislative, municipal, local and internal party elections, by-elections and popular referenda.
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- Campaign Web Review
- Seeks to highlight the ways candidates and campaigns used the Internet in 1998 and provides perspective on the positive and negative impacts that this powerful medium is having on the electoral process.
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- Center for Technology in Government
- Works with government to develop information strategies that foster innovation and enhance the quality and coordination of public services.
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- Electronic Voting Hot List
- List of Internet sites with information about electronic voting--includes links to information about systems, protocols and risks; also includes links to information about direct democracy, vote-by-phone, and vote-by-mail.
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- NetAction
- Founded to educate the public, policy makers, and the media about technology-based social and political issues, and to promote access to and use of information technology as a tool for community organizing, outreach, and advocacy.
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- PoliticsOnline
- Political consulting firm providing tools for online campaigns. Includes a daily news and information service, and a journal of politics on the Internet.
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- VeniVidiVoti
- Provides an online forum for users to write texts in furtherance of participatory democracy.
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- Accurate Democracy
- Site explaining Condorcet's method and proportional representation, and their use in public elections and meetings. Free software included.
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- Approval Voting
- A voting procedure in which voters can vote for, or approve of, as many candidates as they wish. Each candidate approved of receives one vote, and the candidate with the most votes wins.
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- Approval Voting
- Advocacy page for Approval Voting. Includes many theoretical examples which illustrate improvement over plurality voting.
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- Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project
- Project set up to evaluate the current state and reliability of U.S. voting systems, and to propose specific uniform requirements and guidelines for U.S. voting systems. Formed in December 2000 in response to the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election.
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- Condorcet's Method
- A pairwise election system where ranked ballots are used to simulate many head-to-head elections, where the winner is the candidate who wins all pairings.
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- Declared-Strategy Voting
- Group decision-making procedure in which preference is specified using voting strategies in a given scenario (for instance, a first-past-the-post election)
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- Elections, Electoral Methods and Electoral Law
- Describes the voting system for German Federal elections, with discussion, statistics, and links related to unusual characteristics such as with overhang seats and negative weighting of votes.
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- Elections: Results and Voting systems
- Links to websites and articles on a variety of voting systems and suggested election reforms.