Pathfinders: Post-election Blues

I agre, substantially, with this article, though I'd add that voting as a source of information, rather than simply decision making, may well be integrated into everyday life.  At work, i have used Condorcet count machines from the internet to help organise the Christmas lunch, for example: it didn't give straight unequivocal answers, but I think brought in a high degree of acceptance of the final outcome for date and venue.Also, intriguingly, I've recently found a new voting system:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_votingWhich has the benefits of being quick and dirty, but a significant improvement on plurality voting.  the reality is that voting is useful for finding out if a matter is controversial or not, so we will need to have votes: to decide whether or not we need to have more votes.

Hmm, just found a new powertool online:  http://www.opavote.org/It allows for many different voting methods (including my new favourite of Approval voting).  We really should look into finding some way of integrating online voting into the party's decision making…