Miscellaneous range-voting-related stuff

We shall list here things that do not fit neatly into any other category.

  1. Plurality is good and range voting bad because the former leads to more governmental "stability"?
  2. Report by a Swiss company about how to improve US voting system. Why does it cost 10 times less per vote to run an election in Switzerland versus in the USA? Swiss voting system report (outline only)
  3. New York and Connecticut non-democratic pathologies in 2006 that would have been cured, or largely cured, by Range Voting.
  4. Ditto for Ohio 2006.
  5. Estimates of economic values of different political/economic systems.
  6. Text of the USA's Voting Rights Act.
  7. Proportional representation– what is it, and is it better or worse than single-winner systems like range voting?
  8. Pretty good Science News article on voting systems by Erica Klarreich (week of 2 Nov. 2002; Vol. 162, 18 p.280; online version includes comments by readers; local copy) and our response.
  9. Science News article on voting systems by Phil McKenna (12 April 2008) which came out to be quite a mess, and our long response trying to clean up the mess.
  10. Another Science News foul-up on voting systems, this one by Julie Rehmeyer 12 March 2008, with our corrections and a link to the original piece.
  11. Our critique of Scientific American article "Fairest Vote of All" by Dasgupta and Maskin (March 2004, pp.92-97).
  12. Point by point analysis of errors and false claims made in a proposal for IRV voting for Denver. An essay advocating Denver instead adopt range voting.
  13. The influential Vermont Instant Runoff Voting report "As easy as 1-2-3" together with our corrections of some of its false and/or misleading claims.
  14. 12-bit colors chart; and the non-dithering colors.
  15. Range Voting "threshhold strategy" made easy.
  16. HTML4 Character Entities chart
  17. Fable for our times about wasted votes.
  18. Nifty world map showing recent RangeVoting.org visitors
  19. Range Voting exit poll in 2006 TX governor election.
  20. Nonprofits – how to incorporate in US states and nonprofit legal notes.
  21. Joe Malkevitch article on Apportionment schemes.
  22. Little-known historical facts about US Congress Elections
  23. Nobel prizes and democracy
  24. Open letter to CfER.org urging them to support range voting, not instant runoff.

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