BrennaLee Dansie

Morgan Haws

Bekah Masina

The Iowa Caucuses

The Iowa caucus meeting is a time for voters in Iowa to vote for their representative. In the

caucus members of the Democratic and Republican parties hold a meeting to vote. The Republican caucus

is much like a typical primary vote. Republicans gather together on a certain night and cast your vote

through a secret ballot. The votes are scored and the nominee with the highest votes goes on to the

country convention. The Democratic caucus convention is much more complicated. In their caucus,

eligible voters gather together one night to discuss their opinions. Unlike the secret ballot of the

republicans, Democratic caucuses allow the vote to be public. So everyone at the meeting knows

everyone else's vote. Participants at the meeting will gather into groups of who they want their

representative to be. Those who do not yet know who they want go into a undecided group. If a group

does not have enough voters, then the group is disbanded and the members of that group must find a

different group to vote with. After all the groups have enough votes, the winner is decided. It is decided

based off a percent. The percent is found through this formula, (number of people in the group * number

of delegates)/ number of caucus participants. The nominee with the highest percent is the winner and is

sent onto the country convention. The Iowa caucus is important because it is the first state to vote. And it

allows the runners to see how they match up with the people and other candidates. If a candidate does not

make it far in the Iowa caucus then they know they probably will not make it far with other states and in

the country convention.

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1st B R C T

2nd R B R R

3rd C C B C

4th T T T B

i. How many votes? 100 Votes

ii. Who wins by plurality method? T=39, Trump wins by plurality method.

iii.

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1st B B C T

2nd C C B C

3rd T T T B

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2nd T T T C
 v. Who wins by instant runoff? C; Ted Cruz

vi. Who wins by Borda count:

B: 205 C: 272

R: 306 T: 217 Marco Rubio wins by borda count.

vii. How many points does each candidate receive using Copeland’s Method?

B: 1 C: 2

R: 3 T: 0

ix. Who wins copeland’s method.

Marco Rubio

x. Is there a condorcet candidate? Yes

xi. Who? Marco Rubio

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 We believe that according to the Arrow’s impossibility theorem that there is no possible voting

system that can accurately convert the ranked preferences of individuals that voted while still meeting

unrestricted domain, non-dictatorship, pareto efficiency, and independence of irrelevant alternatives

because there are more than three candidates that are running that an individual could potentially vote for,

which means we have more discrete alternative options that we needed to take into careful consideration

when determining the winner of the voters in the Iowa Caucus. That being said, in order of refraining

from a dictatorship, and without restricting voters preferences we have determined that Marco Rubio is

the winner of the Iowa Caucuses. We believe that Marco Rubio is the winner because out of the five

different types of voting methods we used to determine a winner, Marco Rubio won three of the five

different types of voting methods. Through our calculations not only showed that Marco Rubio won the

Borda Count method and Copeland’s method, but he also won as the Condorcet Candidate

method.Through the fairness criteria we believe that Marco Rubio won the Iowa caucuses through using

the Condorcet method. More people have chosen Marco Rubio out of all the rest of the possible

candidates the most frequently. Because most voters have chosen Marco Rubio we also noticed that

through using the fairness criteria we have come the the conclusion that Marco Rubio won by the

majority method on most of the different voting methods including the Condorcet Candidate method as

well.