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Have you ever considered our voting system and thought: "I don't want to pick someone to represent me. I want to tell my representatives, whomever they may be, what I want them to do." Have you ever just wanted your voice to be heard by your elected officials? Have you ever thought the system is broken? If you have, you are not alone.

There are two key phrases that often come up when we talk about breakages in the system: "the will of the people", and "the consent of the governed". The purpose of a democratic government is to implement the will of the people, and the government actions are legitimate when they have the consent of the governed. The phrases sound great, but their definitions have operational issues. How, exactly, is the will of the people determined? How, exactly, do the governed give their consent? Historically, discontent and protests are signs of not doing the will of the people, and when the governed do not consent, there is resistance, rebellion, and eventually revolution if things go too far.

Personally, I would rather things did not go too far, so I designed a collective choice procedure to actually determine the will of the people and allow the governed to explicitly consent, or withdraw our consent as needed. That system is called Serial Approval Vote Election or SAVE for short.

My purpose in site is to introduce and promote SAVE, to show how it builds on a strong foundation of prior methods, and provide guidance as how to implement SAVE for any group. There is no "one true path" through this website, and what is here now may well evolve over time.

This website is currently has twenty pages and is likely to grow a bit more as I add new pages and respond to questions or comments. The current set of pages is organized into four categories:

Home, Administration

Pages providing general information to help you find the page or pages you are looking for. (This page.)

Why SAVE?

The introduction to a group of pages describing how democracy is supposed to work, and providing an explanation of the technical structures that can cause democracies to fail.

What Is SAVE?

The core pages describing Serial Approval Vote Election along with simulation modules or explorables to let you play with the concepts and see how SAVE works.

Simulated Electorates

Pages with more explorables of different models used in voting theory, with emphasis on spatial models.

Each of these initial four sections provide summaries and context for their sub-pages. There is no specific preferred order for this site, but two reasonable starting points are the Why SAVE? section, which describes the problems with our current democracies, and the What Is SAVE? section which describes one possible solution.

JavaScript is use to implement all of the explorables on this site, and to implement the show and hide feature of various sections. It should still be possible to use this site without enabling JavaScript, but the explorables should provide a better experience.

• This site does not store any user data whatsoever.
• This site does not track user behavior.
• This site does not have any advertising.

Most pages on this site have information blocks that can be open or closed as needed. The following section is an example. Just click on the headline below:

The Home page (this page).

The About page provides a conceptual overview of this site and its purpose.

The All Models page provides links and descriptions for all the different interactive simulations and explorables on this site.

The Change Log page provides a record of changes to this site. It is intended to provide a record of changes to make it easier for the user to return to the page and find new or updated information without having to read everything else all over again.

To send us email: SAVE-info@SerialApprovalVoteElection.org

Like SAVE itself, this website is part of an iterative process. This is version 0.2.2 of the web site. More changes still to come. (–tec, 15-Jan-2026)