<div>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. </div>
<div> </div><div>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.</div>
<div> </div><div>The Center for Electoral Science's message is below:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Aaron Hamlin</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaronhamlin@gmail.com">aaronhamlin@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:27 PM<br>Subject: [CES #7368] The Center for Election Science's AV Video Fundraising Campaign has begun!<br>To: <a href="mailto:electionscience@googlegroups.com">electionscience@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<br><br>And our campaign is off!!<div><br></div><div>If you choose, you can spread the word by e-mailing the content below to your friends and colleagues:</div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting" target="_blank"><img width="420" height="402"></a><br>
<b style="font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><b style="font-weight:normal"><p style="text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;display:inline!important" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Depicted Above: Voter Using Worst Voting Method Ever, Plurality Voting</span></p>
</b></b></b><br></b><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="text-align:center"><font style="font-size:11px;white-space:pre-wrap" color="#000000" face="Arial"><br></font></div><b style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">“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!”</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">And that’s why I’m reaching out to you. The most fundamental part of our society is a complete failure. So our organization, </span><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">The Center for Election Science</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">, is doing something about it. We’re fundraising on </span><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Indiegogo</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"> to create a professionally animated video on a well-studied alternative voting method.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">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?</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Here are some of Plurality Voting's epic failures:</span><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<li style="font-size:16px;margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Not expressive, at all.</span></li><li style="font-size:16px;margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc" dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">The vote splits between similar candidates (terrible for primaries).</span></li><li style="font-size:16px;margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc" dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Moderate candidates get squeezed out, even when they're popular (bad winners).</span></li><li style="font-size:16px;margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc" dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Spoiler alert! Candidates with little support can throw the election.</span></li><li style="font-size:16px;margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc" dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Fearing a wasted vote causes dishonest voting.</span></li><li style="font-size:16px;margin-left:15px;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-type:disc" dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">New candidates with different ideas get artificially low support because voters fear wasting their vote. Policy discussion suffers as a result.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">But there’s an </span><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">answer</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"> that solves </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;text-decoration:underline;white-space:pre-wrap">ALL</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"> these issues. We simply take away Plurality’s vote-for-one restriction.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">It's up to you whether you click </span><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"> to learn how it works.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">How would you like to spread the word to actuate real reform within our political system?</span><br>
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<a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://electology.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a><br><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Here we are on</span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.igg.me/at/approvalvoting" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">Indiegogo!</span></a></b><div>
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