Approval voting allows each voter to vote for as many candidates as he wishes in an election but not cast more than one vote for each candidate of whom he approves. If there is a strict Condorcet ...

One advantage of using primaries to select nominees for President is that when the selection process takes place over time, it is easier for similarly-minded voters to coordinate on nominees. Today is ...

At times a group of people, with differing and inconsistent opinions, must come together to make a decision between several options. This happens in business, it happens in social organizations, and ...

Christoph Borgers does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper generalizes Condorcet's jury theorem to the case of symmetrically dependent votes with the help of de Finetti's theorem. Thus, the ...

A voting method is the procedure at the heart of an election that specifies what information is to be gathered from voters, and how that collected information is to be utilized to determine the ...

Voting theory is an interdisciplinary field that examines and evaluates the procedures and algorithms underlying collective decision‐making. Recently, researchers have focused on bridging voting ...

This graph shows the head-to-head matchup of Romney (up) versus Obama (down) according to the Google Ads Poll as the year progressed, with some smoothing applied. The bold black line accounts for ...