[EM] Most important/used election methods?

[Bohdan Andriyiv]

Richard,

> Do you intend to implement those kinds of voting? Or just single-winner methods?
It is going to be a universal platform - it will support *all* kinds
of voting. It will be up to elections' organisers to choose what
method they want to use.

> Is your target audience limited geographically? The U.S.? Europe? etc.
It is going to be a platform for the whole world. But the first go-to
market is intended to be the U.S., because it is the biggest market
and in many ways the example of democracy for the rest of the world.

> 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.
Great! Thanks Richard. I will send you a private message.

Regards,
-Bohdan

On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 2:28 AM Richard, the VoteFair guy
<electionmethods at votefair.org> wrote:
>
> 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