The paradox of voting, also called Downs' paradox, is that for a rational and egoistic voter (Homo economicus), the costs of voting will normally exceed...

In social choice theory, Condorcet's voting paradox is a fundamental discovery by the Marquis de Condorcet that majority rule is inherently self-contradictory...

both their best interests to do so. Voting paradox: Also known as Condorcet's paradox and paradox of voting. A group of separately rational individuals may...

Different voting systems allow each voter to cast a different number of votes - only one (single voting as in First-past-the-post voting, Single non-transferable...

JSTOR 30022874?seq=1. S2CID 153482816. Condorcet's paradox [6] of simple majority voting occurs in a voting situation [...] if for every alternative there...

Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election. As of January...

ranked-choice voting systems, showing that no such voting rule can be sincere (i.e. free of reversed preferences). The field of mechanism design, a subset of social...

Quadratic voting (QV) is a voting system that encourages voters to express their true relative intensity of preference (utility) between multiple options...

discursive dilemma or doctrinal paradox is a paradox of social choice and judgement aggregation. It extends the voting paradox and Arrow's theorem to situations...

frequency and severity of spoiler effects depends substantially on the voting method. Instant-runoff or ranked-choice voting (RCV), the two-round system...

Ranked voting is any voting system that uses voters' rankings of candidates to choose a single winner or multiple winners. More formally, a ranked vote system...

An apportionment paradox is a situation where an apportionment—a rule for dividing discrete objects according to some proportional relationship—produces...

rational individuals would choose to vote despite its apparent lack of individual benefit, explaining the paradox of voting. The theory suggests that individual...

encounter population paradoxes. A particularly severe variant, where voting for a party causes it to lose seats, is called a no-show paradox. The largest remainders...

Plurality-at-large voting Approval voting Single non-transferable vote Single transferable vote Prior to the 2020 election, the US states of Alaska and Maine...

Voting-age population: everyone above the legal voting age in a country regardless of citizenship status or other factors that might affect voting eligibility...

Electronic voting is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or handle casting and counting ballots including voting time. Depending on the particular...

The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual...

districts (First-past-the-post voting) but instant-runoff voting is used in other cases. In both systems each voter has one vote. District magnitude is larger...

Instant-runoff voting (IRV; US: ranked-choice voting (RCV), AU: preferential voting, UK/NZ: alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system...

such a plurality block voting are also winner-take-all. In party block voting, voters can only vote for the list of candidates of a single party, with the...

ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in voting. It was originally a small ball...

precinct or voting district (U.S. terms), polling district (UK term) or polling division (Canadian term), constituency(Indian term)is a subdivision of an electoral...

Weighted voting are voting rules that grant some voters a greater influence than others (which contrasts with rules that assign every voter an equal vote). Examples...

Condorcet paradox. A common alternative to the majority rule is the plurality-rule family of voting rules, which includes ranked choice voting (RCV), two-round...

in the family of plurality voting systems that also includes single-round plurality (FPP). Like instant-runoff (ranked-choice) voting and first past...

theorists as a result of apportionment paradoxes. In particular, the largest remainder methods exhibit the no-show paradox, i.e. voting for a party can cause...

thought of as a variant of block voting. Under both cumulative voting and block voting, a voter casts multiple votes but in the case of cumulative voting, can...

express preferences of varying strengths, making it a rated voting system. Score voting is not vulnerable to the less-is-more paradox, i.e. raising a candidate's...

common cause of no-show paradoxes is the use of instant-runoff (often called ranked-choice voting in the United States). In instant-runoff voting, a no-show...