Category Archives: Articles
The Academy Awards: World’s Greatest Democracy?
While tens of millions of viewers will tune in to celebrate the artistic brilliance and technical wizardry of the film industry, few will ever realize they've just witnessed the state of the art in democracy.
Why the Republicans Lost: A Failed Voting System in the Primaries
If the Republican party wants to compete in and win future elections, their best way to do so is to ...
Bipolar Politics: The Beginning and End of the Two Party System
Do you enjoy being forced to choose between one of two candidates? Now, you may say ...
Audio Interview with Dr. Kenneth Arrow
Dr. Arrow is a Nobel Laureate famous for his Impossibility Theorem. Dr. Arrow: "That's correct. Yes. Now there's another possible way of thinking about it, which is not included in my theorem ...
Audio Interview with Occupy Wall Street’s TJ Frawls
Mr. Frawls is head of the OWS Politics and Election Reform Working Group and has run a voting methods experiment. TJ: "Yeah, we wanted to accomplish ...
Is Our Centuries-Old Ballot Out of Date?
How extreme is this void for alternatives? Say you wanted to find the last Michigan governor that wasn't a Democrat or Republican. You'd have to go all the way back to ...
Taking the Fear Out of Voting
My fellow voter: have you ever been afraid to vote for your favorite candidate? If so, you’re not alone ...
Approval Voting: The Future of Intelligent Elections
What if, for example, we made a slight change to our voting method so you could actually vote for more than one candidate ...
Approval Voting: A Voice for Independents
America hates Independents. Independents take just two of our 535 US Congressional seats. And only 20 of these outsiders sit among the nation’s 7,382 state legislators. Yet, 40% of Americans identify as Independent. How could ...
How I Came to Care About Voting Systems
But if even my dedicated classmates couldn't bring themselves to vote for candidates that shared their cause, then who would? The answer, unfortunately, was hardly anyone ...
