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https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/520737/a-better-way-to-argue-about-politics/

Talks about origins of moral convictions

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How moral reasoning affects political attitudes

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How moral reasoning affects political attitudes

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http://righteousmind.com/the-politics-of-disgust-animated/

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How Metaphors/Rhetoric affect political decision making

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How Metaphors/Rhetoric affect political decision making

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016782

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Same outcome, different moral arguments:  

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Same outcome, different moral arguments:  

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https://news.stanford.edu/2015/10/12/framing-persuasive-messages-101215/

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https://imgur.com/gallery/wHZ0p5P

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30957274-against-elections?ac=1&from_search=true

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Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

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The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can't governments? In this rousing talk Clay Shirky shows how democracies can take a lesson from the Internet, to be not just transparent but also to draw on the knowledge of all their citizens.

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TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEN4XNth61o

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Lets teach people how to argument

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Post with 27702 votes and 596629 views. Shared by walkingsoliloquy. We're these when I needed them?!

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Does election fraud leave traces that can be detected by math ?

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Kansas loves them some voter fraud hysteria. From going to the Supreme Court to try and make doubly-sure that non-citizens can't vote in their elections to setting up a voter fraud website where citizens can report every kind of voter fraud except the kinds that have actually happened in the state, Kansas is on the forefront of voter fraud readiness and protection.

Except, perhaps, when it comes to the machines they use to record their votes.

According to the Wichita Eagle, Wichita State mathematician Beth Clarkson has found irregularities in election returns from Sedgwick County, along with other counties throughout the United States, but has faced stiff opposition from the state in trying to confirm whether the irregularities are fraud or other, less-nefarious anomalies.

Analyzing election returns at a precinct level, Clarkson found that candidate support was correlated, to a statistically significant degree, with the size of the precinct. In Republican primaries, the bias has been toward the establishment candidates over tea partiers. In general elections, it has favored Republican candidates over Democrats, even when the demographics of the precincts in question suggested that the opposite should have been true.

Clarkson's interest in election returns was piqued by a 2012 paper released by analysts Francois Choquette and James Johnson showing the same pattern of election returns, which favor establishment Republican candidates in primaries and general elections. The irregularities are isolated to precincts that use "Central Tabulator" voting machines - machines that have previously been shown to be vulnerable to hacking. The effects are significant and widespread: According to their analysis, Mitt Romney could have received over a million extra votes in the 2012 Republican primary, mostly coming at the expense of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. President Obama also ceded significant votes to John McCain due to this irregularity, as well.

You can read the paper in full here.

While Clarkson has found the same statistical irregularity in a number of localities, her efforts to confirm whether they amount to fraud have been centered on Sedgwick County, Kansas, due to the locality's use of Real Time Voting Machine Paper Tapes, which provide a paper trail that other localities don't have. However, her efforts to verify Sedgwick County's election returns have been repeatedly shut down.

She first requested a recount of the 2013 election, but the timeframe in which a recount could have been requested had passed. She then requested the machines' computer records from the Sedgwick County registrar, which told her to kindly shove off and sue Secretary of State Kris Kobach if she wanted the records so badly.

When Clarkson initially filed her lawsuit requesting the paper records from the voting machines, her suit was denied because a judge ruled that the paper records constituted ballots, shielding them from the state's open records law. This ruling is suspect at best, given that the paper records do not have voters' names assigned to them; they only record when and how a ballot was cast for recount purposes.

She then sought a court order giving her access to a sample of voting records in order to check voting machines' error rates. This order was ignored by the Secretary of State's office, despite their being legally required to respond to her within 30 days. The office later said that they didn't realize they had received her request.

Given Kansas's professed diehard commitment to combatting election fraud, one would think that they would be all for analysis into whether the integrity of their elections have been compromised. Apparently you'd be wrong.

( h/t Occupy Democrats)
Correction: The original title of this post referred to the bias in election returns as "voter fraud." As the allegation of fraud is not against individual voters, but rather administrators of elections, "election fraud" is correct. This change has been made where appropriate.

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A mathematician may have uncovered widespread election fraud, and Kansas is trying to silence her

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Kansas loves them some voter fraud hysteria. From going to the Supreme Court to try and make doubly-sure that non-citizens can't vote in their elections to setting up a voter fraud website where citizens can report every kind of voter fraud except the kinds that have actually happened in the state, Kansas is on the forefront of voter fraud readiness and protection.

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How many politicians do you need to change a lightbulb?

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How many politicians do you need to change a lightbulb?

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Should we hire politicians or experts ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPBGRC0a_wQ

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The Bigger Picture | Rudy van Belkom | TEDxMaastricht

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During elections, you vote for your favorite party or in many cases 'the lesser of two evils'. Rudy van Belkom proposes a different and more modular approach. Why limit our freedom of choice? He explains his future view on elections of which he is convinced will result in more public commitment.

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Understanding the beliefs of other political thinkers.

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Understanding the beliefs of other political thinkers.

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How can you understand the thinking of a conservative or a progressive ? Look at their belief about human nature.

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The conservative approach What is human nature ? The progressive approach Carrot & Stick Humanism Are we born good ? Are we born evil ? What is good ? What is evil ? Doing sth. that harms someone else that you profit from. Doing something that benefits someone else that you don't profit from.

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Why do so many political arguments run in circles ? Because youre not taking the differentness of the other into account.

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In today's American politics, it might seem impossible to craft effective political messages that reach across the aisle on hot-button issues like same-sex marriage, national health insurance and military spending. But, based on new research by Stanford sociologist Robb Willer, there's a way to craft messages that could lead to politicians finding common ground.

"We found the most effective arguments are ones in which you find a new way to connect a political position to your target audience's moral values," Willer said.

While most people's natural inclination is to make political arguments grounded in their own moral values, Willer said, these arguments are less persuasive than "reframed" moral arguments.

To be persuasive, reframe political arguments to appeal to the moral values of those holding the opposing political positions, said Matthew Feinberg, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the University of Toronto, who co-authored the study with Willer. Their work was published recently online in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Such reframed moral appeals are persuasive because they increase the apparent agreement between a political position and the target audience's moral values, according to the research, Feinberg said.

In fact, Willer pointed out, the research shows a "potential effective path for building popular support in our highly polarized political world." Creating bipartisan success on legislative issues - whether in Congress or in state legislatures - requires such a sophisticated approach to building coalitions among groups not always in agreement with each other, he added.

Different moral values

Feinberg and Willer drew upon past research showing that American liberals and conservatives tend to endorse different moral values to different extents. For example, liberals tend to be more concerned with care and equality where conservatives are more concerned with values like group loyalty, respect for authority and purity.

They then conducted four studies testing the idea that moral arguments reframed to fit a target audience's moral values could be persuasive on even deeply entrenched political issues. In one study, conservative participants recruited via the Internet were presented with passages that supported legalizing same-sex marriage.

Conservative participants were ultimately persuaded by a patriotism-based argument that "same-sex couples are proud and patriotic Americans ... [who] contribute to the American economy and society."

On the other hand, they were significantly less persuaded by a passage that argued for legalized same-sex marriage in terms of fairness and equality.

Feinberg and Willer found similar results for studies targeting conservatives with a pro-national health insurance message and liberals with arguments for high levels of military spending and making English the official language of the United States. In all cases, messages were significantly more persuasive when they fit the values endorsed more by the target audience.

"Morality can be a source of political division, a barrier to building bi-partisan support for policies," Willer said. "But it can also be a bridge if you can connect your position to your audience's deeply held moral convictions."

Values and framing messages

"Moral reframing is not intuitive to people," Willer said. "When asked to make moral political arguments, people tend to make the ones they believe in and not that of an opposing audience - but the research finds this type of argument unpersuasive."

To test this, the researchers conducted two additional studies examining the moral arguments people typically make. They asked a panel of self-reported liberals to make arguments that would convince a conservative to support same-sex marriage, and a panel of conservatives to convince liberals to support English being the official language of the United States.

They found that, in both studies, most participants crafted messages with significant moral content, and most of that moral content reflected their own moral values, precisely the sort of arguments their other studies showed were ineffective.

"Our natural tendency is to make political arguments in terms of our own morality," Feinberg said. "But the most effective arguments are based on the values of whomever you are trying to persuade."

In all, Willer and Feinberg conducted six online studies involving 1,322 participants.

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Stanford sociologist shows how to make effective political arguments

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In today's American politics, it might seem impossible to craft effective political messages that reach across the aisle on hot-button issues like same-sex marriage, national health insurance and military spending. But, based on new research by Stanford sociologist Robb Willer, there's a way to craft messages that could lead to politicians finding common ground.

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Is complete disregard of other peoples values and opinions useful criticism or simply divisive ?

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Tomi Lahren - Giving a Voice to Conservative America on "Tomi": The Daily Show

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The mass media regularly dismiss large scale voter fraud as non-existent and a conspiracy theory. An undercover investigation group disagrees.

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Democrats Have Been Rigging Election for Fifty Years and Here Is the Proof
Project Veritas Action has released the second video in a multi-part series that is sending shockwaves through the DNC and the Clinton campaign. The first video explained the dark secrets and the hidden connections and organizations the Hillary Campaign uses to incite violence at Trump rallies. This latest video takes the investigation even further.

Several Project Veritas Action undercover journalists catch Scott Foval, the National Field Director for Americans United for Change, saying, "we've been bussing people in to deal with you fuckin' assholes [Republicans] for fifty years and we're not going to stop now, we're just going to find a different way to do it."

One of the highest-level operatives for the DNC who admits to being "no white knight" said that the Democrats have been rigging elections for fifty years.

Foval then goes on to explain the sinister plot and how they avoid getting caught. The undercover reporter asks why they can't just "bus in" voters, but get them to use their own personal vehicles. Foval describes how they avoid being detected and free of criminal charges. "Would they charge each individual of voter fraud? Or are they going to go after the facilitator for conspiracy, which they could prove? It's one thing if all these people drive up in their personal cars. If there's a bus involved? That changes the dynamic."

How do they keep it a secret from the American people and the FEC? Foval explains, "So you use shells. Use shell companies."

The final straw is Foval and the Democrats don't think journalists, the media or the law can do anything to stop him, the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign. "The question is, whether when you get caught by a reporter, does that matter? Because does it turn into an investigation or not? In this case, this state, the answer is no, because they don't have any power to do anything."

Foval thinks we don't have the power to stop him and the shady and corrupt tactics of the Democrats to rig this election.
View the first video of this series here: http://projectveritasaction.com/video/rigging-election-video-i-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-incite-violence-trump-rallies
Project Veritas Action Fund (AKA Project Veritas Action) was founded by James O'Keefe to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.

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Rigging the Election - Video II: Mass Voter Fraud

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Project Veritas Action Reveals the Diabolical Step-By-Step Voter Fraud Strategy Democrats Have Been Rigging Election for Fifty Years and Here Is the Proof Project Veritas Action has released the second video in a multi-part series that is sending shockwaves through the DNC and the Clinton campaign.

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Objective Rules for fair voting districts.

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The algorithm that could help end partisan gerrymandering

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Another study claiming to have found election fraud.

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Gerrymandering is immoral, no question. But what would a fair voting district look like ?

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Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Using safe-guard measures to keep just the right people from voting

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Voting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...

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This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Preferential voting. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

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A Bernie Landslide in CA Humboldt County (Open Source Voting Tabulation System)

Richard Charnin
July 2, 2016

Matrix of Deceit: Forcing Pre-election and Exit Polls to Match Fraudulent Vote Counts
Proving Election Fraud: Phantom Voters, Uncounted Votes and the National Poll
LINKS TO POSTS
Democratic Primaries spread sheet
From TDMS Research: Democratic 2016 primaries
In California there is just ONE county which uses an Open Source System to count votes. Could that be why Bernie had 71% of the 2-party vote in Humboldt County? It was his highest vote share in ALL 58 counties! The system is a deterrent to fraud.
View the 58 California counties: Election Day and post-Election Day votes.

The Humboldt Open Source (TEVS) tabulation system was pioneered in 2006 by Mitch Trachtenberg, a computer programmer, together with Carolyn Crnich, registrar of Humboldt County and Kevin Collins, election integrity activist. The election showed significant problems in the Diebold system they were using in counting votes.

As result of these problems, Diebold abruptly severed its business relationship with Humboldt. Carolyn then switched to another voting company, Hart InterCivic, but kept the TEVS system functioning.

TEVS is the ONLY OPEN SOURCE, TRANSPARENT SYSTEM FOR COUNTING VOTES IN THE UNITED STATES It is being used as a recounting system to double-check the vote-counting of the Hart InterCivic system which has been performing well, unlike the Diebold system which was used previously.

At the time she introduced TEVS, Carolyn purchased a high speed scanner that could operate independently of any voting machine to tabulate the votes using TEVS.

Confirmation of Greg Palast: Bernie won CA by at least 100,000 votes.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sGxtIofohrj3POpwq-85Id2_fYKgvgoWbPZacZw0XlY/edit#gid=71934428

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Bernie Landslide in CA Humboldt Cty (Open Source system)

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A Bernie Landslide in CA Humboldt County (Open Source Voting Tabulation System) Richard Charnin July 2, 2016 Matrix of Deceit: Forcing Pre-election and Exit Polls to Match Fraudulent Vote Counts Proving Election Fraud: Phantom Voters, Uncounted Votes and the National Poll LINKS TO POSTS Democratic Primaries spread sheet From TDMS Research: Democratic 2016 primaries In California...

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The strange politics of disgust | David Pizarro

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Paradoxes of Preferential Voting on JSTOR

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Peter C. Fishburn, Steven J. Brams, Paradoxes of Preferential Voting, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Sep., 1983), pp. 207-214

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Which technologies could eliminate fraud ?

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Which technologies could eliminate fraud ?

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David Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple, verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each person's vote secret.