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Voting Systems (4 entries)

• What are Voting Systems?
• What is a modified Borda count (or Borda preferendum)?
• What is the Quota Borda System (QBS)?
• What is the Matrix Vote?

The Work of the Institute (5 entries)

• What is your role in Northern Ireland?
• What is your work in the Republic of Ireland?
• What is your role in Britian?
• What is your work in Europe?
• Have you worked elsewhere in the world?

What is a Preferendum? (23 entries)

• What is the technical name?
• So what are the procedures?
• Is a vote always necessary?
• What’s wrong with majority rule?
• What happens in an mbc if people vote for only some, or only one option?
• What happens when there are lots of options on the ballot paper?
• Is the preferendum suitable for all decision-making situations?
• Is it suitable for an election?
• What consensual voting procedures can be used in elections?
• Does the preferendum lend itself better to macro (that is abortion, sovereignty, etc) or micro decisions, (should a school change its uniform, should we have a neighbourhood watch, etc.)?
• If there are a number of areas requiring decisions on, for example, a sports’ club committee agenda, should each decision be made by preferendum, and who should vote, the elected committee or each mem
• Is there not a danger that the use of the preferendum idea would lead to a complete snarl-up in the administration of, for example, a business?
• Can a preferendum be manipulated?
• If a preferendum had been used in 1920 in Ireland, wouldn’t the country still have had to be divided? (Working on the principle of the least discomfort for the smallest number – would not the border s
• Should every division in Westminster/Dáil be decided by preferendum? Again, where do you draw the line between suitable and unsuitable issues?
• When there is a difference in quality or gravity between one outcome and another, (eg. Whether or not to go to war?) does this not highlight a weakness of the preferendum idea?
• The ‘tyranny of the majority’ presupposes that the majority is always wrong. Is it?
• Are there any examples of decision-making situations where the preferendum wouldn’t help?
• Is it necessary to have good maths’ skills or technology to operate preferendums?
• Is a preferendum mathematically ok?
• Can the mathematical difficulties be overcome?
• What’s the difference between a Condorcet and an MBC?
• If having held a preferendum, an unscrupulous minority still persists in violently pursuing its goals, how should it be dealt with?

Decision-making on the web (0 entries)