Voting matters is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 whose purpose is "To advance the understanding of preferential voting systems". Originally published by the Electoral Reform Society

Electoral Reform Society

The Electoral Reform Society is a political pressure group based in the United Kingdom which promotes electoral reform. It is believed to be the oldest organisation concerned with electoral systems in the world.-Aims:...

 (1994–2003), Voting matters is now a publication of the McDougall Trust. The journal's founding editor-in-chief (1994–2010) was British mathematician and computer scientist Brian Wichmann; its current editor is Nicolaus Tideman

Nicolaus Tideman

T. Nicolaus Tideman is a Professor of Economics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He received his Bachelor of Arts in economics and mathematics from Reed College in 1965 and his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1969...

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The majority of Voting matters papers deal with the Single Transferable Vote

Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through preferential voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or...

 (STV) preferential voting system. The journal has also republished several seminal papers on STV by Thomas Hare, Henry Richmond Droop

Henry Richmond Droop

Henry Richmond Droop * was an English mathematician. He is widely credited with devising the Droop quota that is used today in the common voting system known as the Single Transferable Vote. He also may have been the first to write down what later became known as Duverger's Law, in 1869.He married...

, and Brian Meek.