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(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 17, 2024
Balanced: Plurality or Approval? This article re-visits a balanced voting system and compares it to BAV. In the process, the roles of being balanced and evaluative are revealed more clearly. The article can also be taken as a review of the most important features of BAV.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(12 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 15, 2024
BAV: What Could Go Wrong? Tie elections are always a possibility and experience supports the belief that they will only very rarely occur. But mostly our experience is with plurality elections. With some new voting system, that might not continue to be the case. This article suggests how this unlikely problem could be managed sensibly for at least some voting systems, including BAV.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(9 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Another Ranked-Choice Spoiler (Corrected version) This article corrects an error in the previous version. It illustrates the spoiler effect occurrence in a ranked-choice election with only three candidates.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views), Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views)

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, September 26, 2024
Another Ranked-Choice Spoiler As the title suggests, this article presents an example election that fails due to the spoiler effect. In this case there are only three candidates.

(9 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 19, 2024
Handicaps in Score Elections Score voting systems can be praised for allowing expression of both approval and disapproval regarding each candidate. But few score voting systems provide equal opportunities for these choices; some favor famous candidates and others favor the less famous ones. Some allow different levels of power for opposition than for support. Examples are explored in the article.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 2, 2024
Similarities Between Star Voting and Balanced Approval Voting Star voting has had some popularity in recent years, apparently because of its good performance in some simulations. Both star voting and BAV are closely related to score voting, but beyond that they have many differences. This article examines those differences and this provides a platform for reviewing the important features of BAV that make it such an attractive voting system.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 30, 2024
Runoff in a Star Election This article considers runoff elections in a general way, but particularly focusing on star voting, which is seen to be affected, in an unusual way, by the spoiler effect.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views), Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views)

SHARE        Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Why Have Laws Against Murder? The article is intended as food for thought. We explore the possibility that the preamble to our Constitution provides us with good guidance about why some laws should be regarded as illegitimate. Various laws are considered as examples, including dietary laws, murder, theft, fraud and abortion.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 1, 2024
Should Legislatures Use Balanced Approval Voting? (Hint: They already do) Earlier articles in this series have focused on general election or sometimes primaries. This one looks at how to apply an improved voting system to improve the legislative process, either in Congress or in a state or local legislature.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, March 11, 2024
Families of Voting Systems Just because two voting systems use the same ballots does not mean they are the same. How the votes are counted and how the winner is determined are equally important. This article describes such variations of balanced approval voting.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views), Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views)

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 25, 2024
Illusions of Ending the Two-Party Duopoly If ending the two-party duopoly is what we want to accomplish then the options for a new voting system seem quite limited.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views), Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views)

(5 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Can We Reform our Polarized Two-Party Politics? There are many reasons to favor balanced approval voting, and high on the list is that it would give voters more candidates to choose from. This purpose here is to consolidate the most important advantages of this voting system within a single article.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Is BAV Compatible with the Electoral College? The Electoral College now seems an anachronism, but it is enshrined in the Constitution and seems very hard to eliminate. This article suggests a couple of ways to improve matters without resorting to eliminating it.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

SHARE        Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Top-down Bias in Podcasting Technological changes can cause cultural problems that require us to adapt. It may be impossible to return to what worked in the past and so new solutions may be needed. Polarization and the consequent limitations on civil discussions may in part be a consequence of social media. It seems impossible for us to eliminate social media but here we suggest another way to bring back civil discussions of important issues.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 28, 2023
Bottom-up Electoral Reform This article is really a plea for help with spreading the word about BAV. There are a few people who support this method of voting but that number is now quite small compared to the number who are completely unaware of it. So long as that is true, it will not even be a candidate for adoption. Changing that will not be easy, but the article proposes a strategy.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 15, 2023
Less Democracy Should Not Be an Option A podcast discusses the wisdom of returning to smoke-filled rooms (well, maybe no cigars) to decide on nominations for our leaders. Here we argue that there are better alternatives.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(21 comments) SHARE        Thursday, November 30, 2023
Do IRV Voters Just Need Training? Revised to fix tables: A second example is presented of an IRV election being subjected to the spoiler effect. This second example does not depend on the odd handling of abstentions in IRV elections.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views), Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views)

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 5, 2023
Spoiled Again The major selling point for ranked-choice voting has always been that it avoids the spoiler effect. This is shown by example. Here we show a different example of a ranked-choice election in which the spoiler effect does happen.
Series: Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views), Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 19, 2023
Good Strategic Voting IRV is such a complex voting system it might seem that strategic voting simply could not happen. But this article shows that it could become a concern.
Series: Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views), Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views)

(17 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Comparing BAV with Ranked Choice Voting Compared to BAV, ranked-choice voting asks much more of voters. And it puts much more effort into evaluating the responses, so it is not unreasonable to ponder whether all that extra effort is justified.
Series: Balanced Voting (104 Articles, 137513 views), Ranked Voting (38 Articles, 49720 views)

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