I've been thinking that one way to spread information about alternative voting systems might be to gamify one or more systems.
Wikipedia explains gamification better than I could: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification Basically, it's a form of crowd-sourcing where you give game-like points and rewards to get masses of people to engage in large social interactions. On Facebook, for example, one could set up a ranking site to enable users to do their own version of Oscar voting, political favorites, etc, and award prizes for things we might be interested in (like criteria satisfaction). A site like FB would also have the advantage of ID-checking to limit vote-stuffing. Has anyone out there in the EM communities thought about this? Ted -- araucaria dot araucana at gmail dot com ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info