The Election Methods Research Group was founded by Russ Paielli and Mike Ossipoff. Mike is a top expert on election methods, and Russ is the webmaster and content developer. Our purpose is to educate and inform the public about the gross inadequacy of our current plurality election method and the major benefits of a better alternative. Our focus is on single-winner election methods.

The Election Methods Research Group and ElectionMethods.org are completely non-partisan. We believe election methods should be evaluated objectively and mathematically, without regard to which political parties or ideologies might benefit. Although political parties are mentioned on this website to illustrate examples, no endorsement is intended or implied. We believe that a good election method should not artificially favor some parties over others, nor should it artificially restrict the number of parties that can be truly competitive.

Democracy is a great experiment with no guarantee of success. The election methods advocated on this website can improve democracy dramatically by giving the people, to the maximum extent possible, the kind of leaders they really prefer. However, no voting system can guarantee that the people will vote wisely, hence we believe that debates about which system will yield the ``best'' leaders are futile, particularly since the very definition of ``best'' is subjective. As someone once said, ``The people get the government they deserve.''

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