Storable Voting

Storable Voting is a voting system first devised by Professor Alessandra Casella of Columbia University. Similar to Cumulative voting, Storable Votes allows voters to redistribute votes between issues or candidates as they see fit. Unlike Cumulative Voting, Storable Votes also allows for redistribution of votes across time.

Unlike Cumulative Voting, Storable Voting always distributes to voters more votes than there are issues to vote on. Furthermore, Storable Votes allows some votes (occasionally referred to as "Bonus Votes") to be stored and used for any issue and / or at any time (depending on context - for example, allowing for votes to be stored across time is not meaningful in a referendum context). abTheoretical predictions, as well as some lab and field experiments suggest that Storable Votes offer improvements on several simple utilitarian measures of efficiency over Simple Majority Voting.

----Related papers:Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data, Alessandra Casella, Shuky Ehrenberg, Andrew Gelman and Jie Shen [http://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/6851.html]

Storable Votes: Giving Voice to Minorities without Sacrificing Efficiency, Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey and Raymond Riezman [http://www.cesifo-group.de/pls/guestci/download/CESifo%20DICE%20Report%202007/CESifo%20DICE%20Report%203/2007%20/dicereport307-forum3.pdf]

Minorities and Storable Votes, Alessandra Casella, Thomas Palfrey and Raymond Riezman [http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/11674.html]

A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda, Alessandra Casella, Andrew Gelman Minorities and Storable Votes, [http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/11375.html]