[EM] Fwd: [CES #7368] The Center for Election Science's AV Video Fundraising Campaign has begun!

[Michael Ossipoff]

As explained below, the Center for Electoral Science intends to enter a
professionlly-produced simple video about Approval in a video contest
sponsored by an organization that advocates better democracy. The forwarded
message is self-explanatory.

Presumably the contestant videos will be seen by lots of people. Of course
the winner will get even more attention. This is a way to bring Approval in
particular, and voting system reform, to the attention of many people.
Maybe we can start to get some constituency demand for changing from
Pllurality to Approval.

The Center for Electoral Science's message is below:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Aaron Hamlin <aaronhamlin at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:27 PM
Subject: [CES #7368] The Center for Election Science's AV Video Fundraising
Campaign has begun!
To: electionscience at googlegroups.com


And our campaign is off!!

If you choose, you can spread the word by e-mailing the content below to
your friends and colleagues:

* <http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting>

Depicted Above: Voter Using Worst Voting Method Ever, Plurality Voting

*

*“I want you to imagine for a moment that our most important choices were
decided through the worst voting method ever invented. . . . Well, THEY
ARE!”

And that’s why I’m reaching out to you. The most fundamental part of our
society is a complete failure. So our organization, The Center for Election
Science <http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting>, is doing something about it.
We’re fundraising on Indiegogo <http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting> to
create a professionally animated video on a well-studied alternative voting
method.

Our current voting method is the vote-for-one, Plurality Voting. And it is
absolutely hideous. Can you even imagine a way to give less information?

Here are some of Plurality Voting's epic failures:

   - Not expressive, at all.
   - The vote splits between similar candidates (terrible for primaries).
   - Moderate candidates get squeezed out, even when they're popular (bad
   winners).
   - Spoiler alert! Candidates with little support can throw the election.
   - Fearing a wasted vote causes dishonest voting.
   - New candidates with different ideas get artificially low support
   because voters fear wasting their vote. Policy discussion suffers as a
   result.


But there’s an answer <http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting> that
solves ALLthese issues. We simply take away Plurality’s vote-for-one
restriction.

It's up to you whether you click HERE
<http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting>to learn how it works.

How would you like to spread the word to actuate real reform within our
political system?
-Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/electology>
-Twitter <https://twitter.com/electionscience>
-Tumblr <http://electology.tumblr.com/>
<http://electology.tumblr.com/>
Here we are on Indiegogo! <http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting>*

The decision to act on improving our democracy is up to you!

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