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Brief

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Pivot is a web application currently under development that aims to provide legislators with the most fair and democratic way to vote on and prioritize budget items. Once completed, the first legislature to use Pivot will be the Common Council of Madison, Wisconsin.

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Pivot Libre is a free open source web application currently under development that aims to provide legislators with the most fair and democratic way to vote on and prioritize budget items. Once completed, the first legislature to use Pivot Libre will be the Common Council of Madison, Wisconsin.

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Impetus

Solution

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Mathematicians and philosophers have found solutions for many of the problems posed by common voting systems. In particular, 18th century French Revolutionary philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet’s ranked pair voting system offers distinct advantages over standard voting practices on ballots where voters have multiple candidates to choose from, and where there may be more than one winner.

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Pivot implements a version of the Condorcet voting method in order to determine an ideal sequence for which to vote on budget items, based on the popular priorities of voters. Members of a legislative body cast ballots - like that shown below - listing budget items in their preferred order of priority.

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Mathematicians and philosophers have found solutions for many of the problems posed by common voting systems. In particular, 18th century French Revolutionary philosopher the Marquis de Condorcet's ranked pair voting system offers distinct advantages over standard voting practices on ballots where voters have multiple candidates to choose from, and where there may be more than one winner.

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Pivot Libre implements Ranked Pairs &emdash; a Condorcet voting method &emdash; in order to determine an ideal sequence for which to vote on budget items, based on the popular priorities of voters. Members of a legislative body cast ballots - like that shown below - listing budget items in their preferred order of priority.

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Solution

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Pivot then tallies all submitted ballots in order to produce a democratically selected list of items ordered by the popular priorities of the voters. Budget items can subsequently be voted on in the order presented by this list, which ensures that items are voted on in order of popular priority, rather than by the agenda established by the chair or other procedural entity.

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Pivot Libre then tallies all submitted ballots in order to produce a democratically selected list of items ordered by the popular priorities of the voters. Budget items can subsequently be voted on in the order presented by this list, which ensures that items are voted on in order of popular priority, rather than by the agenda established by the chair or other procedural entity.

By allowing legislatures to set their budget agendas by ranking budget items, they can collectively create budgets that fully exemplify their values.