What Makes A Voting Method Good?

You’re probably familiar with voting methods generally; that is, how voters add information to their ballots and how that information is calculated. Right now, our main voting method has us choose one candidate, and the candidate with the most votes wins. This is called plurality voting or first-past-the-post voting but here, we’ll refer to it as our current “choose-one” voting method.

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Executive director at The Center for Election Science. Attorney. Utility maximization enthusiast. Lover of effective altruism. Other work at: aaronhamlin.com

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Aaron Hamlin

Executive director at The Center for Election Science. Attorney. Utility maximization enthusiast. Lover of effective altruism. Other work at: aaronhamlin.com