Solving the Problem of Democracy

One does not need to look far to understand that there is a great problem with current American Democracy. The PluralityThis is the voting system currently used for most American elections. Each voter chooses only one candidate, and the winner is the candidate with the most votes. system currently in place is hostile to both voters and candidates of all political parties: the major parties suffer from vote-stealing, the minor parties from suppression due to strategicA vote is called "strategic," "tactical," or "pragmatic" if it does not reflect the voter's true preference, but is rather an attempt by the voter to secure the best possible outcome, given the voter's prediction of how other voters will act. voting, and the voters are left to pick up the pieces and understand what their vote can possible mean.

The Solution

The solution is CondorcetThe general term for any election method that uses ranked ballots and has, as it's first princple, the Condorcet Criterion: any candidate which beats every other candidate individually must win the election. Any Condorcet method must come along with an ambiguity resolution procedure for cases in which there is no winner by this first criterion. voting. Condorcet is a system devised several hundred years ago that is very difficult to carry out, but logically superior to every other system. It is based on the principle that voters should be able to cast honestA vote is called "honest" if it reflects the true preference of the voter, even if it is apparent to the voter that voting differently will produce a more preferred result. votes and know that there is no more effective way to support their preferred candidates while still preventing the “greater of two evils.”

This site exists for the express purpose of explaining and advocating Condorcet Elections, which are the solution to an age-old dilemma and the key to a new era of Democracy.