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Life & fun · December 13, 2016

TO BUILD A BETTER BALLOT

An interactive guide to alternative voting systems

TO BUILD A BETTER BALLOT launched on December 13, 2016 with 6 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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an interactive guide to alternative voting systems

( NOTE: This interactive article was written in 2016! Sorry the specific example is so dated & U.S-specific — but, the math & ideas behind better voting systems apply broadly, to all democracies in all times. So, good luck with that. Also, please ignore my cringe running gag about Trudeau.) No, this is not about the 2016 U.S. election. Not just that, anyway. First, I need to explain a weird glitch in our voting system. Let's say there's two candidates, Steven Square and Tracy Triangle , on a couple political axes. (for example, “left vs. right” and “globalist vs. nationalist”) Let's also say there's a voter who simply votes for whoever's political position is…from ncase.me

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