<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi folks,<div><br></div><div>Before I blast this out to a wider audience, I'd like to send my draft to this mailing list.  It's included below and at the following link:</div><div><a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaNews/2025-December">https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaNews/2025-December</a></div><div><br></div><div>I haven't summarized what's been going on on the EM list, which maybe we should.  What does everyone thing the most notable discussions have been this month?  This year?</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div>---------</div><div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Happy holidays, y'all! This is the first (and maybe only) version of the <b>ElectoramaNews</b>, covering December 2025. Actually, since this is the first edition, this may end up becoming a "year-in-review" newsletter. The newsletter hasn't yet been published (as of 2025-12-05), so it's difficult to say what will be in here.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">This issue of <i>ElectoramaNews</i> provides a basic outline for future newsletters, while sprinkling in some of the news from December 2025. It mainly focuses on online conversations; future editions will hopefully focus more on movement progress. This edition highlights the "<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaCall" title="ElectoramaCall" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">ElectoramaCall</a>", a new monthly video call. It also provides a summary of every post to the <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/r/EndFPTP" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">/r/EndFPTP</a> subreddit in December. Other forums may get more coverage as activity picks up on each of them.</p><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section01_--_Main_feature:_the_"ElectoramaCall"" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit"><span id="gmail-Section01_--_Main_feature:_the_.22ElectoramaCall.22"></span>Section01 -- Main feature: the "ElectoramaCall"</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa" title="User:RobLa" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:RobLa</a> hosted a video call (the "<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaCall" title="ElectoramaCall" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">ElectoramaCall</a>") on December 17 with leaders in the electoral-reform space. One product of that conversation was a goal to publish a monthly newsletter. We also resolved to have monthly conversations, which are currently slated for a similar time each month (more on that in a bit).</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The discussion (at first) was intended to have conversations similar to those in <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Sass_Open_Democracy_Discussion" title="Sass Open Democracy Discussion" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Sass's Open Democracy Discussion</a>, but at a different time of day. Sass's call sometimes enjoys the attendance of an Australian or two, which is easier to imagine when it's noon in Sydney than it is for Europeans attending when it's well past midnight in Paris. However, timezone differences aren't the only reason why some folks hope we have a regular call. There have frequently been debates between the "cardinal camp" (folks that like <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Approval_voting" title="Approval voting" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">approval voting</a>, <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Score_voting" title="Score voting" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">range/score voting</a>, and <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/STAR_voting" title="STAR voting" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">STAR voting</a>) and the "ordinal camp" (folks that advocate for systems that work best with a ranked ballot, like <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" title="Instant-runoff voting" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">instant-runoff voting</a> and <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Condorcet_method" title="Condorcet method" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Condorcet methods</a>). Many folks in these two camps are deeply disrespectful of folks in the opposing camp, which is something that might get incrementally better if the two camps have mutually respectful discussions with one another on a regular basis.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">If you would like to join the January call (slated for Wednesday, January 21 at 2pm Pacific Time), please RSVP to <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa" title="User:RobLa" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:RobLa</a>, and he will add you to the meeting invitation.</p><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section02_--_reddit_EndFPTP_update" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit">Section02 -- reddit EndFPTP update</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/r/EndFPTP" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">the /r/EndFPTP subreddit on reddit.com</a> is a very active forum for discussing electoral reform, and frequent posters seem to come from all quarters of the reform movement (both the cardinal camp and the ordinal camp post here). Below Is a list of some of the posts on EndFPTP. As of this writing on December 14, it is a mostly unedited collection of posts pulled from reddit using a vibecoded script along with some haphazard manual coalition and adaptation to MediaWiki format. There are likely gaps in the coverage due to when and how <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa" title="User:RobLa" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">RobLa</a> ran the script.</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-28 14:34:06 [a000]<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>I built an Agent-Based Model in Python to simulate how Electoral Systems influence Separatism and Civil War risk. Here are the results. (I need you to find the reason for close pr stv)</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: If you disagree with this conclusion, I’d really appreciate specific, actionable critique: please point out exactly where you think the model breaks—whether it’s in the assumptions, the metric/formula, or the input data. I’m happy to revise the analysis i… ([<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pxsqls%7Cfullbodylen=8929" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">[1]</a>])</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: [<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://reddit.com/u/mercurygermes%7C/u/mercurygermes" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">[2]</a>]; score: 9</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://i.redd.it/9uthbcu9hy9g1.png" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://i.redd.it/9uthbcu9hy9g1.png</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pxsqls" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pxsqls</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-23 21:47:49 [a001]<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>Idea: Lazy MMP</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: Probably not the best name for this system. I’m also pretty sure somewhere already uses/used something like this, but I couldn’t track down where I saw it. Whether it even qualifies as lazy is a question in itself. The system (which can be implemented in … ([<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pu63jn%7Cfullbodylen=1343" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">[3]</a>])</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: [<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://reddit.com/u/Additional-Kick-307%7C/u/Additional-Kick-307" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">[4]</a>]; score: 1</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pu63jn/idea_lazy_mmp/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pu63jn/idea_lazy_mmp/</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">3 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pu63jn" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pu63jn</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-22 20:19:47 [a002]<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>Idea: A framework to convert any single-winner method into PR?</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: After learning about <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Sequential_Monroe_voting" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">Sequential Monroe voting</a>, I think I’ve came up with a general framework that can theoretically turn any single-winner method (let’s call it <b>Method X</b>) into a multi-winner prop… ([<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pt9u3t%7Cfullbodylen=1702" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">[5]</a>])</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: [<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-autonumber" href="https://reddit.com/u/No-Vast7006%7C/u/No-Vast7006" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">[6]</a>]; score: 1</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pt9u3t/idea_a_framework_to_convert_any_singlewinner/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pt9u3t/idea_a_framework_to_convert_any_singlewinner/</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">15 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free"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t:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pjdg8w/is_there_a_better_way_to_market_condorcetirv/</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">37 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pjdg8w" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pjdg8w</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-10 16:54:43<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>Schwarzenegger blasts redistricting ‘war’</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: He kinda pointed out yhe problem eith FPTP</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/u/SamsonOccom" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">/u/SamsonOccom</a>; score: 2</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://youtube.com/shorts/72FxgVVmo_I?si=Wg43fClFSOruASVR" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://youtube.com/shorts/72FxgVVmo_I?si=Wg43fClFSOruASVR</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">3 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pj7q8n" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pj7q8n</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-09 22:59:40<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>Shaky political “science” misses mark on ranked choice voting</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: In this study, co-author Paul Haughey and I assess the quality and credibility of 41 different studies on RCV. We note a disturbing pattern. A number of misleading studies, including by well-known political scientists, fall well short of real “science.” … (<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pim4fq" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">fullbodylen=888</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/u/DemocracyWorks1776" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">/u/DemocracyWorks1776</a>; score: 5</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/democracysos/p/shaky-political-science-misses-mark?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://open.substack.com/pub/democracysos/p/shaky-political-science-misses-mark?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">4 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pim4fq" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pim4fq</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-06 07:39:42<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>Economist article on FPTP: “Britain’s slot-machine politics”</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: The article is fairly critical of FPTP, focusing on how things get random when you have multiple parties. That’s just one of many criticisms of FPTP, obviously, but a good sign when a newspaper like The Economist is writing articles like this. Behind a p… (<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pfjkgz" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">fullbodylen=3019</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/u/Dystopiaian" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">/u/Dystopiaian</a>; score: 18</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/04/britains-slot-machine-politics" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/12/04/britains-slot-machine-politics</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">7 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pfjkgz" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pfjkgz</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-04 04:05:45<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>Score Then Automatic Runoff (STAR) Voting Used For First Time In Election For Public Office to Elect Astoria City Council Member!</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: “On Monday, city councilors interviewed Conklin and the other applicants during a public meeting. The councilors listened to public comments from attendees and then used a “score then automatic runoff” (or STAR) voting system to narrow the field to the to… (<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pdq6h5" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">fullbodylen=520</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/u/Stunning_Walrus6276" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">/u/Stunning_Walrus6276</a>; score: 49</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://mailchi.mp/equal.vote/star-elects-astoria-city-councilor" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://mailchi.mp/equal.vote/star-elects-astoria-city-councilor</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">3 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pdq6h5" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pdq6h5</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-03 13:46:36<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>Ranked choice voting outperforms the winner-take-all system used to elect nearly every US politician</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: When it comes to how palatable a different voting system is, how does RCV fair compared to other types? I sometimes have a hard time wrapping my head around all the technical terms I see in this sub, but it makes me wonder if other types of voting could r… (<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pd4la9" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">fullbodylen=360</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/u/12lbTurkey" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">/u/12lbTurkey</a>; score: 140</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://theconversation.com/ranked-choice-voting-outperforms-the-winner-take-all-system-used-to-elect-nearly-every-us-politician-267515" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://theconversation.com/ranked-choice-voting-outperforms-the-winner-take-all-system-used-to-elect-nearly-every-us-politician-267515</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">138 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pd4la9" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pd4la9</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2025-12-03 02:19:15<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">title: <b>How do I refute the argument that Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem prove electoral systems are the “worst” system?</b></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">body: The person I’m debating claims that <b>Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem</b> and the <b>Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem</b> prove that electoral systems are mathematically broken and therefore are the worst possible way to govern. His proposed solution is a system w… (<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pcrys8" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">fullbodylen=6562</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">user: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://reddit.com/u/No-Vast7006" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">/u/No-Vast7006</a>; score: 7</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">url: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pcrys8/how_do_i_refute_the_argument_that_arrows/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pcrys8/how_do_i_refute_the_argument_that_arrows/</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">30 comments: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pcrys8" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1pcrys8</a></li></ul></li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section03_--_Voting_Theory_Forum_update" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit">Section03 -- Voting Theory Forum update</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The Voting Theory Forum is a popular watering hole for many folks in the electoral-reform. The activity on this website seems to have simmered down from it's early days (in 2020 and 2021), but there are still frequently notable discussions here.</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">URLs:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://votingtheory.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://VotingTheory.org</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">News:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">(ADD HERE)</li></ul></li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section04_--_Center_for_Election_Science_updates" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit">Section04 -- Center for Election Science updates</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">This newsletter intends to track the major electoral-reform organizations, and the <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Center_for_Election_Science" title="Center for Election Science" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Center for Election Science</a> (CES) is one of them. CES is largely focused on approval voting as their preferred method, but they support other reforms. One can presumably follow the latest things going on with them by <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://x.com/electionscience" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">following them on <s>Twitter</s>x.com</a> or by <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://electionscience.org/newsroom" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">consulting their "Newsroom"</a>.</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">URLs for approval-voting organizations:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://electionscience.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://electionscience.org</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">News:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Utah The last thing they mention in their "Newsroom" (as of December 15) is <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://electionscience.org/newsroom/from-texas-gridlock-to-utah%E2%80%99s-blueprint-a-tale-of-two-states-and-redestricting-reform" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">the use of approval voting in Utah</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Colorado - Manny Rutenel</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Maryland - Reintroducing legislation for 2026</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">NAACP's call for voting reform that includes RCV/IRV and Approval Voting:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://naacp.org/resources/states-voting-rights-act" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://naacp.org/resources/states-voting-rights-act</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section05_--_FairVote_updates" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit">Section05 -- FairVote updates</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Of course, if we're going to talk about big organizations in electoral reform, we have to talk about <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/FairVote" title="FairVote" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">FairVote</a>. They also have <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://x.com/fairvote" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">an x.com profile</a> and a "newsroom" of sorts, from which the latest thing (as of December 15) is <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://fairvote.org/why-im-hopeful-about-democracy/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">an editorial about gerrymandering</a> and asserts "<i>We can end gerrymandering. We can create a nation where every district is a swing district.</i>"</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">URLs for RCV/IRV organizations:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://fairvote.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://fairvote.org</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">News:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">ADD HERE</li></ul></li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section06_--_Equal_Vote_Coalition/STAR_Action_updates" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit"><span id="gmail-Section06_--_Equal_Vote_Coalition.2FSTAR_Action_updates"></span>Section06 -- Equal Vote Coalition/STAR Action updates</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The big news for the <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Equal_Vote_Coalition" title="Equal Vote Coalition" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Equal Vote Coalition</a> and STAR Action is <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://x.com/5starvoting/status/1997391859983761663" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">the news from Astoria</a>. The EVC/STAR folks have not one but two <a href="http://x.com">x.com</a> accounts they post things to: <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://x.com/5starvoting" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">@5starvoting</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://x.com/TheEqualVote" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">@TheEqualVote</a>.</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">URLs for EVC/STAR organizations:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://equal.vote/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://equal.vote</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://www.starvoting.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://www.starvoting.org/</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">News: website launches in 2025<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://bettervoting.com">https://bettervoting.com</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://realrcv.equal.vote/">https://realrcv.equal.vote/</a></li></ul></li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section07_--_Better_Choices_for_Democracy" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit">Section07 -- Better Choices for Democracy</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Better_Choices_for_Democracy" title="Better Choices for Democracy" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Better Choices for Democracy</a> is a new organization that officially launhed in November 2025. They are focused on <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Condorcet_method" title="Condorcet method" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Condorcet methods</a>; specifically, what they call "Consensus Choice Voting". The latest news from <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://betterchoices.vote/news" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">the BCD newsroom</a> is a video editorial from University of Maryland Professor Eric Pacuit titled "<i><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://www.betterchoices.vote/news/same-voters-different-winners-why-rules-matter" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">Consensus Choice Explained: Head-to-Head Voting vs Plurality & Ranked Choice</a></i>".</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">URLs<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://betterchoices.vote/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://betterchoices.vote</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">News: BCD has launched a new web app for conducting online polls:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://ccv-app.netlify.app/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://ccv-app.netlify.app/</a></li></ul></li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section08_--_Wikipedia_updates" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit">Section08 -- Wikipedia updates</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">There has been a lot of editing happening on election-method articles and adjacent articles on English Wikipedia. Here's a few feeds that one can look at to see some of the latest changes:</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Electoral_systems" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Electoral_systems</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Psephology" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Psephology</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Voting_theory" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Voting_theory</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Template:Voting_criteria_table" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Template:Voting_criteria_table</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">section08-item01</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">(ADD HERE)</li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section09_--_Electorama/electowiki/EM/ES/abif" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit"><span id="gmail-Section09_--_Electorama.2Felectowiki.2FEM.2FES.2Fabif"></span>Section09 -- Electorama/electowiki/EM/ES/abif</h2></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Electowiki" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="Electowiki" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">electowiki</a> is still the most prominent wiki associated with electoral reform that <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa" title="User:RobLa" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:RobLa</a> knows about (other than <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="English Wikipedia" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">English Wikipedia</a>). Looking at <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">the RecentChanges feed for electowiki</a>, it would seem that <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa" title="User:RobLa" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:RobLa</a> has been the most active editor in December (as of December 15), but <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:Dr._Edmonds" title="User:Dr. Edmonds" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:Dr. Edmonds</a> made some changes to the <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Sequentially_Shrinking_Quota" title="Sequentially Shrinking Quota" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Sequentially Shrinking Quota</a> article. Back in November, <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:Kristomun" title="User:Kristomun" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:Kristomun</a> and <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:Dr._Edmonds" title="User:Dr. Edmonds" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:Dr. Edmonds</a> were more active than <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa" title="User:RobLa" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:RobLa</a>, with changes to the "<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Sequentially_Spent_Score" title="Sequentially Spent Score" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Sequentially Spent Score</a>" article and the "<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Kotze-Pereira_transformation" title="Kotze-Pereira transformation" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Kotze-Pereira transformation</a>" article, among others. Also, <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/RodCrosby" title="Special:Contributions/RodCrosby" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:RodCrosby</a> resumed work on <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RodCrosby/QPR2" title="User:RodCrosby/QPR2" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">their QPR2 article</a>.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Election-methods_mailing_list" title="Election-methods mailing list" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">election-methods mailing list</a> (a.k.a. the "EM list") has seen modest activity in November and December:</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">November:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2025-November/date.html" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2025-November/date.html</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">December:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2025-December/date.html" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2025-December/date.html</a></li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">The <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Election-software_mailing_list" title="Election-software mailing list" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">election-software mailing list</a> (a.k.a. the "ES list") has been pretty quiet, other than <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa" title="User:RobLa" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">User:RobLa</a>'s promotion of the "<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/User:RobLa/Electorama_call" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="User:RobLa/Electorama call" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Electorama Call</a>" happening on December 17.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Activity on <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/ABIF" title="ABIF" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">ABIF</a>, <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Abiftool" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="Abiftool" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">abiftool</a>, and the <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/ABIF_Web_Tool" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="ABIF Web Tool" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">ABIF Web Tool (awt)</a> has been relatively quiet, though there was <a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-text" href="https://github.com/electorama/awt/commit/1ca34c24c212dbc4cdc04d813ca76be64ad115ac" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em">a little performance/caching work on awt in November</a>.</p><ul style="padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">section09-item01</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">(ADD HERE)</li></ul><div class="gmail-mw-heading gmail-mw-heading2" style="color:rgb(16,20,24);margin:0.25em 0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;display:flow-root;word-break:break-word;border-bottom:0.841667px solid rgb(162,169,177);font-size:1.5em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,"Source Serif Pro",serif;line-height:1.375"><h2 id="gmail-Section10_--_additional_items/other_orgs" style="color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;padding:0px;display:inline;word-break:break-word;border:0px;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.375;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit"><span id="gmail-Section10_--_additional_items.2Fother_orgs"></span>Section10 -- additional items/other orgs</h2></div><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Orgs<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Secure Internet Voting (<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://siv.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://siv.org</a>)</li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Respect Voters Coalition (<a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://respectvoters.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://respectvoters.org</a>)</li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Misc links submitted during <a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaCall" title="ElectoramaCall" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">ElectoramaCall</a> in December 2025:<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Robert Bristow-Johnson's submitted paper for <i>Constitutional Political Economy</i>:<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jIhFQfEoxSdyRz5SqEjZotbVDx4xshwM/view" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jIhFQfEoxSdyRz5SqEjZotbVDx4xshwM/view</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">One page primer (talking points) on "<a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Precinct_summability" class="gmail-mw-redirect" title="Precinct summability" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">precinct summability</a>":<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YtejO54DSOFRkHBGryS9pbKcBM7u1jTS/view" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YtejO54DSOFRkHBGryS9pbKcBM7u1jTS/view</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">2022 Letter to Governor Phil Scott of Vermont about H.744 from 2021:<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Niss1nWjbsb63rPeKTKLT7S2KVDZIo7G/view" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Niss1nWjbsb63rPeKTKLT7S2KVDZIo7G/view</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Templates for plausible legislative language implementing Ranked-Choice Voting:<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DGvs2F_YoKcbl2SXzCcfm3nEMkO0zCbR/view" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DGvs2F_YoKcbl2SXzCcfm3nEMkO0zCbR/view</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin 2004 <i>Scientific American</i> article "The Fairest Vote of All":<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m6qn6Y7PAQldKNeIH2Tal6AizF7XY2U4/view" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m6qn6Y7PAQldKNeIH2Tal6AizF7XY2U4/view</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Articles regarding the Alaska RCV election in August 2022 that suffered a similar majority failure:<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/WorkGroups/House%20Government%20Operations/Bills/S.32/Witness%20Documents/S.32~Eric%20Maskin~" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2024/WorkGroups/House%20Government%20Operations/Bills/S.32/Witness%20Documents/S.32~Eric%20Maskin~</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://electowiki.org/wiki/Benham%27s_method" title="Benham's method" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Benham's method</a></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Text for tabled bill in Vermont:<br><a rel="nofollow" class="external gmail-free" href="https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2024/H.424" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:url("/1.44/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") 100% 50%/0.857em no-repeat;border-radius:2px;padding-right:1em;word-break:break-all">https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2024/H.424</a></li></ul></li><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">News<ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em;padding:0px;list-style-type:disc"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">(ADD HERE)</li></ul></li></ul></div></div>
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