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Voting system

I've been working on this article for a while, and I'd like to eventually get it to featured article status. Since the article has been worked on mostly by voting enthusiasts, I'd like to know how understandable and informative it is to other people.

The area of voting theory is interesting for Wikipedia to take on, because almost all of the published literature and web sites are biased in favor of one voting method or another. People don't tend to write about voting theory unless they have a POV to push. So I'd like to make sure that this article is a shining bastion of NPOV in a subject area that sorely needs one.

rspeer 22:52, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

I noticed two things while doing a quick read of the article. First the article seems to only consider systems were each voter has an equal say. Some mention should be made of elections, such as corporate shareholder elections, where individuals may have different numbers of votes available to them. The second issue is that the article has multiple sections consisting of only one or two short paragraphs. These should either be expanded or consolidated so that each subsection has at least two good sized paragraphs. --Allen3 ^talk 00:13, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Okay. I assume one of the problems was the section on proportional representation, which was a one-paragraph lead followed by two small sections. I consolidated that into one section. I also need to deal with "The single-winner revival", but I'm not sure yet whether I can flesh it out or whether I should merge it with another section. rspeer 03:17, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Oh, right. I'm thinking about how to work in different amounts of voting power, too. rspeer 05:59, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

You could expand on the discussion of cumulative voting, which is the most common (and probably intuitive) method of assigning unequal power to voters. Rather than "one man one vote" it's "one share one vote" Scott Ritchie 08:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC)