Activities allow students to explore alternative voting methods. Students discover what advantages and disadvantages each method offers and also see that each fails, in some way, to satisfy some desirable properties. Election 2000 Interactive classroom activities includes a lesson on the electoral college, and Youth Voice 2000, a mock convention designed to introduce high school students to hot topics in 2000 national election. A statistical examination of the vote for Buchanan relative to the votes for Gore and Bush for all of the counties in Florida. Center for Voting and Democracy - Robert Loring, webmaster Examining how voting systems affect participation, representation and governance.
Voting sounds like a simple matter.
Just pick a candidate, then count the ballots and announce the tally. We seek to estimate the probability that a manual recount of one or several counties, or of the entire state, could produce a change in the outcome of the election to choose Electors from Florida for the election of a US President in 2000. A site for researching campaign finance statistics. It's not the idea of one person one vote that's the problem, it's that math that is used to turn those votes into a final decision. Ideally, that math should reflect the wishes of the electorate.