| You have two minutes to read about the most important ideas in this book. |
The outside back cover |
| You want a couple of minutes of enlightening entertainment. |
The cartoons on pages 18, 22, 30, 48, 67, 109, 308, and 360, or the poem on page 391 |
| You only have time to read one short chapter. |
The overview on pages 9 through 15 |
| You want to flip through the book and just read the most important concepts. |
The highlighted words, which are also flagged with the exclamation-point symbol |
| You want to learn about the two most important changes that are needed to make election results fair. |
Chapter 11: Letting Voters Indicate Their Second Choice, Third Choice, And So On (page 225) and Chapter 12: VoteFair Ranking Reveals True Popularity (page 237) |
| You want to know how U.S. Presidents can be elected in a way that produces fair results. |
Chapter 10: Solving The Electoral-College Riddle (page 207) and Chapter 18: Fixing The Broken Presidential Race (page 323) |
| You want to know how to fairly elect a specific kind of official, such as a city’s Mayor or a small organization’s President, Treasurer, and Secretary. |
The table on page 364 |
| You want to know how a group of people can collectively rank the importance of budget categories, choose the best logo, or otherwise identify the popularity of choices that aren’t candidates. |
Chapter 14: Decision-Making, And Ranking Choices That Aren’t Candidates (page 279) |
| You want to know what you can do to promote fair election results. |
The Taking Action section at the end of each chapter |
| You want to know why the voting methods we now use are so easily influenced by campaign contributions. |
Chapter 1: Following The Political Money Trail (page 19), Chapter 2: What Does the Money Buy? (page 41), and Chapter 5: Why Plurality Voting Makes Results Easy To Manipulate (page 113) |
| You want to know what will happen when today’s primitive voting methods are replaced by truly fair voting methods. |
Chapter 23: What’s Ahead? (page 369) |
| You are adventurous! |
The table of contents on the next page, then jump to whatever chapters sound interesting |
No time