Voter Autrement 2024 - The Online Experiment

The election of the French representative to the European Parliament is based on a proportional representation system with a 5% threshold. Due to this threshold, votes for parties that do not reach this threshold are lost, and the corresponding voters are not represented, and not taken into account for the allocation of seats. In this context, we wanted to test alternative voting methods that could mitigate this issue by allowing voters to rank more than one list. We conducted an online voting experiment during the election of the French representative to the European Parliament in June 2024. In this experiment, participants were asked to vote with the alternative voting methods, and give their opinion. We ran the experiment on two sample of participants, a self-selected one in which every voter could participate, and a representative one, collected through a poll institute.