Aaron Hamlin, executive director of The Center for Election Science, joins Modern Whig Radio to discuss approval voting — how it works, what its applications are, and the barriers to it being implemented more widely.
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Aaron Hamlin is the executive director and co-founder of the Center for Election Science. Working from Ohio, he's been consulted on voting procedures for small to large organizations and publicly elected officials in several states. He's been published in numerous outlets and has been invited as an expert speaker at conferences across the country. Aaron is also a licensed attorney with additional graduate degrees from Indiana University and Miami University.
Whose Presidential Debate Is It?
Remember that the major parties shouldn’t be the ones deciding whom Americans get to hear from. It’s not their Presidential debate. It’s yours.
5 Ways American Plurality Voting System Fails
Any academic will tell you that our choose-one voting method (plurality voting) is a terrible, terrible voting method. (There’s better.) In fact, plurality voting is so bad that it deserves its own top five list.
Are Award Ceremony Votes Meaningful?
What if the award ceremony voting methods they use are so poor that we can’t know if they regularly snub the truly best candidates?
Why We Are Doing Online Polling Wrong
Please, internet, stop doing choose-one polls and use approval polls! It hardly ever makes sense to limit respondents to one selection. Use those checkboxes or allow for ratings so we can get online polling results that actually make sense.
Election Day 2014: Independent Voters Locked Out Again
Tuesday was typical. We saw low voter turnout. We’ve looked at the results from the congressional elections decided so far along with the standing seats, and we’ve compared who gets elected to how voters actually identify. Brace yourself. It’s bad.
Launching Campaign for Smarter Voting Worldwide
We’ve been working a lot behind the scenes lately to help deliver you a better experience through our website. We hope our new look makes things a lot easier to find. Also, we’ll be adding new resources as we go along!
Approval Voting Gets Its Long-Overdue Animated Video
After successfully crowdfunding over $12,000, The Center for Election Science has delivered the first animated explainer video on Approval Voting
Closer Look at the Center for Election Science
Center for Election Science: Center is one of few nonprofits in U.S. that focus on voting methods