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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.
The Global Revolution in Online Open-Source Democracy
English and Argentinian techies build open-source democracy apps to redefine voting for modern era
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?
A Unusually Taiwanese Negative Voting Proposal
Opposition pushing Taiwanese negative voting campaign as solution to damaging period of gridlock
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.
Principals of Congressional Moneyball Number Crunching
VIDEO: Authors claim Congressional Moneyball-type system can be solution to political gridlock
Vote Feeds Growth of Political Big Data Industry
Powerful new tools allow political big data community to take advantage of voting information
On Viable Political Parties: What Can We Do Now?
Voting is only half of democracy. Equally important is open and honest media (something that we currently don’t have any semblance of). In particular, it’s necessary that the public aren’t being fed a lie about what other voters want or which politicians belong to viable political parties.
What is the Best World Map? VOTE NOW!
In currently-published atlases and magazines, there are, very nearly, only two world map-projections that are ever encountered nowadays. The purpose of this poll is to find out which map projections people actually like and prefer.