The Center for Election Science (CES) is a nonprofit organization that campaigns for electoral reform in the United States. It advocates cardinal voting methods, with an emphasis on approval voting.

Activities

CES was involved in successful campaigns to help pass approval voting in the cities of Fargo, North Dakota and St. Louis, Missouri.^[1]^[2] In November 2021, CES launched a campaign to get approval voting adopted in Seattle, Washington in the November 2022 election.^[3] As of June 2022, the campaign has gathered the signatures necessary to include a ballot initiative on the November ballot.^[4]

Funding

As of August 2022, CES has received over $2.4 million in grants from Open Philanthropy,^[5] $300,000 from the Future Fund,^[6] $100,000 from Effective Altruism Funds,^[7]^[8] and over $40,000 from the Survival and Flourishing Fund.^[9]

Further reading

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) Politics is so much worse because we use an atrocious 18th century voting system. Aaron Hamlin has a viable plan to fix it, 80,000 Hours, May 31.

External links

Center for Election Science. Official Website.

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Related entries

electoral politics | electoral reform | United States

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