I'd love to see free software real politicians. I hope @bkuhn runs for something and will support him! I've mentioned half-jokingly many times that RMS should run for Green U.S. President nomination, and still would enjoy that.

@wolftune I'd be OK with binary range (approval) voting, but sure a more granular range would be fun. I intended to do something like http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2011/12/05/election-methods-illustrated/ (which was for 2012 republican US president nomination race) for subsequent interesting elections but forgot, will have to pick that up again. I don't really think a coalition of minor parties in US focused on election method reform has any chance. Each is focused on some other issues, election method reform advocacy from them seems very self-interested, but most importantly, there just aren't many people who care at all about minor parties -- the demand has to come from independents and also democrats and republicans. That said, I don't know how important green advocacy has been for the limited adoption of IRV in US so far; not mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting_in_the_United_States