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A Problem in Voting
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
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The following is a problem in voting:
A number of n individuals are separately arranged in order of preference by a number of k electors ; it is desired to ascertain the order of preference in the opinion of the electors as a whole.
Without discussing what is the best solution of this problem, there are three plausible methods, and it will appear as the result of a curious theorem that two of them lead to identical results.
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