VOTING

WHAT IS VOTING? FAIRNESS CRITERIA

Voting is the • Majority Criterion 1. All voters should be
treated equally .
main vehicle • Condorcet Criterion
2. All candidates should be
by which • Independence of Irrelevant treated equally.
Alternatives Criterion
decisions 3. Unanimity
• Pareto Criterion
are arrived at in a 4. Non-dictatorship
• Monotonicity Criterion
democratic society.

METHODS OF VOTING

1 MAJORITY RULES 2 PLURALITY METHOD 3 CONDORCET METHOD

The candidate which The candidate which A candidate is a winner
receives the majority, receives the MOST when he would, on the basis
MORE THAN 50%, of FIRST-PLACE VOTES is of the ballots cast, defeat
first-place votes wins declared the every other candidate in a
the election. winner. one-on-one contest
using majority rule.

4 HARE SYSTEM 5 BORDA COUNT

A winner is determined by Points are assigned to

repeatedly deleting candidates, the ranked candidates
in stages, that are least pre- on each voter’s prefer-
ferred. A winner may emerge ence list. The winner is
after all other candidates the candidate with
have been deleted. +1 +2 the MOST POINTS.
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