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Upcoming ElectoramaCall and ElectoramaNews for January
by Rob Lanphier 16 Jan '26

16 Jan '26

Hi everyone! In December, we had our first "ElectoramaCall" with leaders in the electoral-reform movement[1]. We're doing it again in January: [1]: https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaCall Our next call is happening on Wednesday, January 21 at 2pm Pacific time (22:00 UTC). As with last month, please RSVP by emailing me, or you may email "news(a)electorama.com" (a newly created email alias). You can also send email to "news(a)electorama.com" if you want to add something to the ElectoramaNews and you don't want to sign up for an electowiki account. But really, why wouldn't you want to sign up for an electowiki account? If you have paid attention to electowiki's "Recent Changes"[2], you would know that I'm drafting the ElectoramaNews for January on electowiki[3]: [2]: https://electowiki.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges [3]: https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaNews/2026-January I would love to have your help! Right now, I'm planning on doing a deeper look into the effort to pre-emptively ban RCV in Indiana, but that could change as the end of the month draws closer. I'm planning to publish the January newsletter in January, but we'll see how I feel when I grow tired of working on it and how quickly February approaches. Rob p.s. As of right now, news(a)electorama.com is just an alias for my email address, but I reserve the right to change that. p.p.s. There was a lot going on for me personally in December, but I'm hoping I'll have the time I'm hoping for to put together the January edition. p.p.p.s. If you have an electowiki account, but feel nervous making edits directly to the newsletter, just drop a comment on the talk page: [4]: https://electowiki.org/wiki/Talk:ElectoramaNews/2026-January

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Electorama community on reddit alternative lemmy.world
by Rob Lanphier 03 Jan '26

03 Jan '26

Hi folks, As many of you know, /r/EndFPTP has become the de facto electoral-reform subreddit over on reddit. Many of you post here because you don't agree with the general consensus over at /r/EndFPTP, or maybe you got banned over there. Regardless, if you're interested in big online forums that aren't reddit to reach new folks, this email is for you! There's a reddit alternative that seems to have critical mass to talk politics/etc called "Lemmy". Lemmy is decentralized, but I believe that "lemmy.world" is the largest instance of Lemmy, so I created an electoral-reform community there (A "community" on Lemmy is a "subreddit" on reddit.): https://lemmy.world/c/electorama Note that I haven't promoted /c/electorama much yet, so it's pretty quiet right now. But I did at least post the ElectoramaNews to /c/politics on Lemmy.world and got a few upvotes: https://lemmy.world/post/41079275 Lemmy obviously doesn't have the reddit folks too worried, and Lemmy still has plenty of usability issues, but I think it stands a good chance of having its moment in the sun eventually. Regardless of whether it ever becomes even 0.01% as successful as reddit, there's a community of people over there that talk politics, and some of them may not know as much about the Condorcet criterion or monotonicity as they should. Even though it's a smaller audience, it's not nothing. Rob

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ElectoramaNews published to reddit (and available in video form!)
by Rob Lanphier 01 Jan '26

01 Jan '26

Hi folks, With minutes (nay HOURS) remaining in 2025, the ElectoramaNews for December 2025 has been published to reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/1q0ttty/first_edition_of_the_elec… I've also crossposted it to Electorama subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/electorama/comments/1q0tzjh/first_edition_of_the_e… One may (of course) read it on electowiki: https://electowiki.org/wiki/ElectoramaNews/2025-December ...or if you want to listen to me read it (or even WATCH me), see me over on the new "electorama" channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzsNd9DFaH4 Please let me know if there's anything timely you want to make sure gets included in the January edition! Rob

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