''Voting matters'' was a

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

Electoral Reform Society The Electoral Reform Society (ERS) is an independent campaigning organisation based in the United Kingdom which promotes electoral reform. It seeks to replace first-past-the-post voting with proportional representation, advocating the single t ...

(1994–2003), ''Voting matters'' then became a publication of the

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until April, 2013. The journal's founding

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(1994–2010) was British mathematician and computer scientist

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, followed by

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. The majority of ''Voting matters'' papers dealt with the

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

Henry Richmond Droop Henry Richmond Droop (12 September 1832 – 21 March 1884) was an English mathematician. He devised the Droop quota used in the Single Transferable Vote. He also may have been the first to write down what later became known as Duverger's Law, i ...

, and

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. Other papers, such as "Four Condorcet-Hare Hybrid Methods for Single-Winner Elections", dealt with hybrid voting methods that partially incorporate STV.

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