CES recently handled the Republican Liberty Caucus straw poll, where Rand Paul topped Ted Cruz for first. And once again, approval voting demonstrated its superiority over the ubiquitous choose-one plurality voting.
Send Our Approval Voting Experts To Colorado
We’re excited to be invited back to Free and Equal’s Voting Method and Election Integrity Symposium. If you happened to miss the symposium from last year, you can check it out in the video
IVN Shows Why Approval Polls Matter
A choose-one approach would cause respondents to focus on electability rather than the candidates themselves. Viability is never an issue when deciding whether to approve your favorite candidate in approval voting.
Let Trump Run Independent If He Wants
With approval voting, voters torn between Trump and the Republican nominee can choose both. Diehard Trump supporters that don’t distinguish between either of the two major parties can just choose Trump
Who Gets To Debate Republicans?
With this direct ask approach, you’d limit the number of debaters, but you wouldn’t limit them arbitrarily. Candidates like Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Marco Rubio would still likely get in. A handful of others probably would as well, although it’s hard to predict using existing polling.
And Let Every Vote Count: Approval Voting
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.
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.