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October 2022
A Real-World Map for Understanding the Irascible Pandemonium of US Politics
Democracy is like a puzzle: you have to fit all the pieces together to see the Big Picture
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Steven Hill
3
September 2022
The Five Harmful Gremlins of Winner-Take-All Elections
The basic architecture of US democracy bedevils voters, candidates and political parties alike
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Steven Hill
Alaska election results show why Condorcet is obsolete
Condorcet advocates use the wrong standard for evaluating Ranked Choice Voting elections
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Steven Hill
21
August 2022
How the “Pyramid of Money” corrupts US democracy
The architecture of “winner take all” elections magnifies the pernicious effects of privately financed campaigns
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Steven Hill
3
June 2022
Why electoral systems matter: a thought experiment
What’s this? The same votes cast through different electoral systems can elect completely different representatives?
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Steven Hill
5
What Fargo Reveals about Approval Voting
While contextually an improvement over plurality elections, approval voting has downsides compared to ranked choice voting
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Rob Richie
4
Nuts&Bolts: What would proportional representation look like in the United States?
A picture is worth a thousand words. Multi-winner district maps show the potential
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Drew Penrose
1
May 2022
Nuts&Bolts: Whither and Whether Proportional Voting in the USA
Why I focus on the proportional form of ranked choice voting for electing Congress
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Rob Richie
3
April 2022
Nuts&Bolts: Representation in the City of Beverage
An exercise about the mechanics of how electoral systems work
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Steven Hill
1
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