On-Line Voting Calculators
On-Line Voting Calculators
Stephen Downes-Martin, PhD
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Here are a few online voting calculators for use in a wide variety of group decision situations. Military, government and business leaders use many of the methods these calculators handle. I provide this list as a courtesy without any warranty of accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose.
Here are a few online voting calculators for use in a wide variety of group decision situations. Military, government and business leaders use many of the methods these calculators handle. I provide this list as a courtesy without any warranty of accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose.
Condorcet and Instant Runoff Calculators
Ranked-ballot voting calculator
Voting calculator for over 60 voting systems
(compare results and pick the method that gives you a result you want)
Note that a Google search for "voting calculator" returns over 24,000 results, so if the ones linked on this page do not satisfy your desire for cunning manipulation you have plenty of other choices -- including of course programming up your own calculator!
I suggest the following procedure:
Identify how you believe the staff or committee you are on will vote by your knowledge of them, listening to their discussions during meetings and probing them with questions, and private conversations with them outside the meetings.
Use the "Voting calculator for over 60 voting systems" above and enter your ballot guesses.
Run your eye down the results of the 67 voting methods to identify the ones that give you the best results.
Start negotiating with selected colleagues about changing their votes for alternatives they do not care about but which you do. You could even offer to change your votes for alternatives they care about but you do not.
Refine your knowledge of how each person is likely to vote. Iterate steps 1 through 4 as often as possible.
Argue for why the method identified in step 3 (as best for you) is the most appropriate for your current situation
("it's the most logical, most objective, easiest to use", etc.)If you don't get a result close to what you want, argue using the pathologies of the voting method used that a re-analysis needs to be made,
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