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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

severity of spoiler effects depends substantially on the voting method. Instant-runoff voting (IRV), the two-round system (TRS), and especially first-past-the-post...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Saari, Donald G. (2000). "Mathematical Structure of Voting Paradoxes: II. Positional Voting". Journal of Economic Theory. 15 (1): 511–528. doi:10.1007/s001990050002...

candidates of the party in a single column and allowed the voter to mark off the party box at the top, which encouraged straight-party voting and the coattails...

transferable vote (STV) or proportional-ranked choice voting (P-RCV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a...

applied to the finger of voters (usually the index finger) during elections in order to prevent electoral fraud such as double voting. It is used in countries...

Early voting, also called advance polling or pre-poll voting, is a convenience voting process by which voters in a public election can vote before a scheduled...

Weighted voting refers to voting rules that grant some voters a greater influence than others (which contrasts with rules that assign every voter an equal...

slaves would be better off not voting in order to make a visible protest—but this is a tactical not a moral consideration. Voting would not be evil but, in...

of Ireland of electronic voting for the 2004 local elections was expected to lead to the demise of the tally system. However, widespread criticism of...

can be used to arbitrarily pick the winner. In group decision-making voting paradoxes can form. It is possible that alternatives a, b, and c exist such that...

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...