(see also
electoral system) Voting systems are methods of
voting, of which there are more than one
might think. In addition to
first past the post, which is what is used
in many places in the world (U.S. and Great Britain being two examples),
there's
Proportional Representation,
single transferrable vote (a.k.a.
Instant Runoff),
Approval Voting and many
pairwise methods such as
those designed by
Condorcet,
Copeland, and
Dodgson (a.k.a.
Lewis Carroll).