In social choice theory and politics, a spoiler effect happens when a losing candidate affects the results of an election simply by participating. Voting...
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September 26, 2023. "Spoilers: The Official Vulture Statutes of Limitations" at Vulture. Spoiler.io, a random-spoiler website The Movie Spoiler, a movie-description...
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Since "spoiler" is a term describing an application, the operation of a spoiler varies depending on the particular effect it is trying to spoil. Standard...
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Elimination from postseason contention (redirect from Spoiler effect (sports))
playoffs can affect other teams in the league as they play, often having a spoiler effect on teams still in contention for playoff spots. For example, a baseball...
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Center squeeze (redirect from Center squeeze effect)
A center squeeze is a kind of spoiler effect shared by rules like the two-round system, plurality-with-primaries, and instant-runoff voting (IRV). In a...
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Look up Spoiler or spoiler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spoiler or Spoilers may refer to: Spoiler (media), something that reveals significant plot...
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Plurality voting (section Spoiler effect)
of spoilers often gives rise to suspicions that manipulation of the slate has taken place. The spoiler may have received incentives to run. A spoiler may...
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that these would reduce the need for tactical voting and reduce the spoiler effect. Examples include preferential voting systems, such as instant runoff...
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Instant-runoff voting (section Spoiler effect)
instant-runoff voting claim that instant-runoff voting eliminates the spoiler effect, since instant-runoff voting makes it safe to vote honestly for marginal...
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the most spoiler-resistant class of ranked voting systems: whenever it is possible for some ranked voting system to avoid a spoiler effect, a Condorcet...
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Condorcet paradox (section Spoiler effects)
where any ranked voting system that respects majorities must have a spoiler effect. Suppose we have three candidates, A, B, and C, and that there are three...
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and their resistance to the spoiler effect becomes a more complex matter. Some rated methods are immune to the spoiler effect when every voter rates the...
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Write-in candidate (section The spoiler effect)
tip the balance and change the outcome of the election by creating a spoiler effect. Many U.S. states and municipalities allow for write-in votes in a partisan...
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impossibility theorem (showing that ranked voting cannot eliminate the spoiler effect) and Gibbard's theorem (showing it is impossible to design a straightforward...
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theorists as a result of their susceptibility to center squeeze (a kind of spoiler effect favoring extremists) and the no-show paradox. This has led to the rise...
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response to accusations that he would act as a spoiler in the race Kennedy announced a policy dubbed his "non-spoiler pledge." In the policy he invited both the...
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Third party (U.S. politics) (section Spoiler effect)
Horng-En; Chen, Fang-Yu (2019). "Extreme Candidates as the Beneficent Spoiler? Range Effect in the Plurality Voting System". Political Research Quarterly. 72...
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of winning for a dissimilar candidate. This is commonly known as the spoiler effect, which can discourage minor party candidacies. Vote splitting most easily...
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In aeronautics, a spoiler (sometimes called a lift spoiler or lift dumper) is a device which increases the drag and decreases the lift of an airfoil in...
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less vulnerable to the spoiler effect than the plurality system or the two round system. This is because a potential spoiler candidate often has only...
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has also been criticized by some Democrats for the possibility of the spoiler effect that could favor Republicans; the party has disputed this claim. In...
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to ensure one of the majority-preferred candidates wins, creating a spoiler effect. By the majority criterion, a candidate C should win if a majority of...
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Adding more parties to the legislature can cause a bizarre kind of spoiler effect called the new state paradox. When Congress first admitted Oklahoma...
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demonstrates that every ranked voting algorithm is susceptible to the spoiler effect. Gibbard's theorem provides a closely-related corollary, that no voting...
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candidate will lose electoral votes in the nationwide election (i.e., the "spoiler effect"). In the 2016 United States presidential election, this has usually...
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candidates will win election. Vote swapping avoids wasted votes (and the "spoiler effect") by shifting votes from uncompetitive districts to competitive districts...
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Caucus, McArdle played a key role in leveraging the Libertarian Party's spoiler effect into securing a pardon for Ross Ulbricht by Donald Trump. McArdle has...
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Borda count (section Effect of irrelevant candidates)
as plurality, 'splitting' a party's vote in this way can lead to the spoiler effect, which harms the chances of any of a faction's candidates being elected...
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Dennis Pyle, who was on the ballot as an independent, would have a spoiler effect benefiting Kelly. This was the first gubernatorial election in Kansas...
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candidates decreases the chance of any of them winning, also known as a spoiler effect. Methods that are vulnerable to this include the plurality voting system...
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