Four Voting Methods

The applet below helps practice and gain insight into four voting methods: Plurality, Borda, Plurality with Elimination, Pairwise Comparison. The instructions for using the applet are available on a separate page and can also be read under the first tab directly in the applet.

(This applet was created to accompany Excursions in Modern Mathematics, Seventh Edition, by Peter Tannenbaum © Pearson Education. Reproduced with permission. An earlier version of the applet is still available online at http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/SocialScience/SocialChoice.shtml.)

Reference

1. For All Practical Purposes by COMAP, 5^th edition, W. H. Freeman & Company, 2008 (8th edition)
2. G. Szpiro, Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the Present, Princeton University Press, 2010.
3. P. Tannebaum & R. Arnold, Excursions In Modern Mathematics, 7th edition, Prentice Hall, 2009

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