''Voting matters'' was a

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whose purpose is "To advance the understanding of preferential voting systems". Originally published by the

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(1994–2003), ''Voting matters'' then became a publication of the McDougall Trust until April, 2013. The journal's founding

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(1994–2010) was British mathematician and computer scientist

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, followed by Nicolaus Tideman. ''Voting matters'' papers dealt with the study of various

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. The journal has also republished several seminal papers on STV by Thomas Hare, Henry Richmond Droop, and Brian Meek.

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