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The concept of Balanced Ballot is sometimes referred to as:  Negative Voting, YesNo Voting, Balanced Plurality Voting,  Anti-Vote, Disapproval Voting, CAV(Combined approval voting), Bipolar Voting, Balanced Voting, Evaluative Voting, or Formal Recognition of the Negative Preferences

Following are various articles that deal with the this concept.

 

  1. Grece, Claire James (1869): Upon Negative Voting; a paper read at a meeting of the Jurisprudence Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, on Monday, 12th July, 1869. 

  2. Boehm, G.A.W. (1976): One fervent vote against Wintergreen. Mimeograph.

  3. Brams, S.J. (1977): When is it advantageous to cast a negative vote? In: Mathematical Economics and Game Theory: Essays in Honor of Oscar Morgenstern (R. Henn, O. Moeschlin, eds.). Springer, Berlin, pp. 564–572.

  4. Felsenthal, D.S. (1989): On combining approval with disapproval voting. Behavioral Science 34, 56–70.

  5. Daniel Ferguson & Theodore Lowi (2001): Reforming American Electoral Politics: Let’s Take“No” for an Answer, 34 PS: Pol. Sci. & Pol. 277, 277

  6. George C. Leef (October 29, 2004) A Modest Proposal – Let’s Allow Negative Voting

  7. Claude Hillinger, “The Case for Utilitarian Voting”, Homo Oeconomicus 22(3) (2005): 295–321.

  8. Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki, Majority Judgment: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010; paperback ed. 2020)

  9. Michael Kang(2010): Voting as veto,  Michigan Law Review, Vol. 108, No. 7

  10. Jos´e Carlos R. Alcantud and Annick Laruelle: To approve or not to approve: this is not the only question: Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, University of the Basque Country (October 2012)

  11.  Paul Cohen, (May 22, 2014) Are more political parties possible here?

  12.  George Leef (October 14, 2014) Unhappy With a Hold Your Nose Election? You should be allowed to vote Against candidates.

  13. Donald Kronos (Nov. 21, 2014): The right to say NO!

  14. Sam Chang (November 9, 2016) Did the wrong person win?

  15. Baujard, A., European Journal of Political Economy (2017), How Voters Use Grade Scales in Evaluative Voting. ​

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Internet discussion forums

http://www.researchgate.net/post/Has_anyone_ever_tried_Negative_Votes

http://opengov.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Ability-to-vote--No--against-a-candidate./2912-4049

https://frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/negative-voting/#comment-6296

https://www.facebook.com/groups/NegativeVote/

https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/40672/has-negative-voting-ever-been-officially-implemented-in-elections-or-seriously/70042#70042

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A website Answers to Everything also has a section that discussed YES/NO/Abstention voting.

Balanced Ballot Bibliography

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