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STAR Voting — hands-on

Do STAR, don't just read about it. Three ways to make the method tangible for a class, a club, a council, or a skeptical uncle — from printing real paper ballots to counting an election with a pencil.

  • Run a paper-ballot STAR demo — the crowd favorite. Create an election on BetterVoting, print matching paper ballots (a print-ready PDF, with a live "scan to vote" QR and the election id baked in) from its export, let the room vote on paper and/or by phone, hand-count, and check it against BetterVoting's official tally. Two independent counts that agree. Tool: bv_ballot_sheet.py (spec).
  • Count a STAR election by hand — tally a real election with pencil and paper (add the stars → top two → count the runoff), so "STAR is simple and hand-countable" stops being a claim and becomes something you've done.
  • Teaching STAR Voting — the presenter's companion: the order to teach it in, the terms to use, which examples to reach for, and the misconceptions to head off.

(Up: STAR Voting — concept pages · the docs hub 00_START_HERE.)