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How to Host an Election or Get Involved with STAR Voting

STAR Voting's website (starvoting.org) offers two distinct paths depending on your goal: if you want to run an election using the…

Why Does STAR Voting Claim to Fix a Broken Voting System?

STAR Voting's core claim is that the current voting system is "broken" because it forces voters to choose between voting their co…

How Is STAR Voting Different from Ranked Choice Voting?

STAR Voting and Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) differ in two fundamental ways: how voters mark their ballots and how those ballots ar…

How Does STAR Voting Work in an Election?

STAR Voting works in two stages: voters score every candidate from 0 to 5 stars, then the two highest-scoring candidates advance …

What is STAR Voting and what does the starvoting.org website offer?

STAR Voting is a voting method whose name stands for Score Then Automatic Runoff. The starvoting.org website is the online home o…