Could Math Design the Perfect Electoral System? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

No, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That only covers ranked voting.

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard%27s_theorem

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I find it interesting that they spent so much time deliberating over different types of plurality voting, and then just kinda slip range voting in at the end without much consideration. Depending on how it's implemented, I think range voting would be the ideal method for representative democracy.

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