[EM] Most important/used election methods?

[Richard, the VoteFair guy]

Many of the "most popular" election systems involve political parties, 
such as marking a favorite party.

Also, many of the "most popular" election systems are multi-winner 
elections.

Do you intend to implement those kinds of voting? Or just single-winner 
methods?

Is your target audience limited geographically? The U.S.? Europe? etc. 
That too affects what you mean by popular.

In another message you offer a peek at your platform. I don't have time 
to assist much, but if you want more feedback please send me a link 
(privately, which is what you prefer) and that would be helpful for 
better understanding what it is you are attempting to build.

All of that affects the interpretation of your words "important" and 
"popular."

Richard Fobes


On 10/15/2021 5:24 AM, Bohdan Andriyiv wrote:
> Richard, thank you for the detailed list of (as I understood) the best
> / the most fair / the most supported by this forum election methods.
> It is very helpful and works for me as a good starting point to
> explore the election methods. Thanks to the others who made their
> inputs as well.
>
> But my question is different. I guess it worked as a trick question
> for this community and I should have explained better the context
> behind it.
>
> I am asking what election methods are the most important/popular in
> the current world? Not, which ones are the best, the fairest. BTW, by
> "important" I mean - the methods that might be not so popular, but are
> important in the current world for some other reason (for example,
> used in small, but important elections).
>
> Why am I interested in this? I am designing a universal voting
> platform where anyone will be able to create and conduct *any* kind of
> voting (serious or not).
>
> As this community knows much much better than I do, the voting can be
> organized in the multitude of different ways. Hence it is too
> difficult (complex and time consuming) to design a system that
> supports all of the methods right from the start. So I want to
> prioritise the implementation of the methods that are the most popular
> or important.
>
> In other words my question is the following.
>
> What types of election methods are most likely to be used to organize
> different votings on the universal voting platform in the current
> world?
> Also, what methods, although not so popular, but important in the
> current world, should be supported by this platform?
>
> Thank you,
> -Bohdan